| particoloured | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| particular | (adjective) providing specific details or circumstances | - |
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| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, picky |
| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: special |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: peculiar, special |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, special |
| (adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same group or category | - |
| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: specific |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class | Synonyms: particular proposition |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| particularisation | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularization |
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| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularised | (adjective) directed toward a specific object | Synonyms: particularized |
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| particularism | (noun) a focus on something particular | - |
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| particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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| particularity | (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: specialness |
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| particularization | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularisation |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularized | (adjective) directed toward a specific object | Synonyms: particularised |
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| particularly | (adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: especially, peculiarly, specially |
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| (adverb) uniquely or characteristically | Synonyms: peculiarly |
| (adverb) specifically or especially distinguished from others | Synonyms: in particular |
| particulate | (adjective) composed of distinct particles | - |
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| (noun) a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) | Synonyms: particulate matter |
| parting | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, leave |
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| (noun) a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions | Synonyms: part |
| partisan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partizan |
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| (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partizan |
| (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: drumbeater, zealot |
| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partizan |
| partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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| partita | (noun) (music) an instrumental suite common in the 18th century | - |
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| (noun) one of the variations contained in a partita | - |
| partition | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: divider |
| (noun) (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit | - |
| (verb) separate or apportion into sections | Synonyms: zone |
| (verb) divide into parts, pieces, or sections | Synonyms: partition off |
| partitioning | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: breakdown |
| partitionist | (noun) an advocate of partitioning a country | - |
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| partitive | (adjective) indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts | - |
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| (adjective) (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole | - |
| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: separative |
| (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
| partizan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partisan |
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| (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partisan |
| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partisan |
| partly | (adverb) to some extent; in some degree; not wholly | Synonyms: in part, part, partially |
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| partner | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, pardner |
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| (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, spouse |
| (noun) a person who is a member of a partnership | - |
| (verb) provide with a partner | - |
| (verb) act as a partner | - |
| partnership | (noun) a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses | - |
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| (noun) the members of a business venture created by contract | - |
| (noun) a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal | - |
| partridge | (noun) small Old World gallinaceous game birds | - |
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| (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite, bobwhite quail |
| (noun) valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada | Synonyms: Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse |
| (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: tinamou |
| (noun) flesh of either quail or grouse | - |
| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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| parts | (noun) the local environment | - |
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| partsong | (noun) a song with two or more voice parts | - |
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| parttime | (adverb) for less than the standard number of hours | Synonyms: half-time, part-time |
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| parturiency | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail |
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| parturient | (adjective) of or relating to or giving birth | - |
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| (adjective) giving birth | - |
| parturition | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, birthing, giving birth |
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| party | (noun) an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment | - |
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| (noun) a gathering of people for pleasure | - |
| (noun) an organization to gain political power | Synonyms: political party |
| (noun) a band of people associated temporarily in some activity | Synonyms: company |
| (noun) a person involved in legal proceedings | - |
| (verb) have or participate in a party | - |
| partygoer | (noun) someone who is attending a party | - |
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| parve | (adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | Synonyms: pareve |
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| parvenu | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenue |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart |
| (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, upstart |
| parvenue | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenu |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
| parvis | (noun) a courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral) | - |
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| parvo | (noun) any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease | Synonyms: parvovirus |
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| parvovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease | Synonyms: parvo |
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| pas | (noun) (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet) | - |
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| pasang | (noun) wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions | Synonyms: bezoar goat, Capra aegagrus |
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| (noun) large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | Synonyms: oryx |
| pascal | (noun) a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter | Synonyms: Pa |
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| paschal | (adjective) of or relating to Passover or Easter | - |
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| paseo | (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: walk, walkway |
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| pasha | (noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt | Synonyms: pacha |
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| paspalum | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, dallisgrass, Paspalum dilatatum |
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| pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| pass | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: passing |
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| (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, toss |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, walk |
| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: passing, qualifying |
| (noun) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target | - |
| (noun) a permit to enter or leave a military installation | Synonyms: liberty chit |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: passport |
| (noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: bye |
| (noun) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions | Synonyms: laissez passer |
| (noun) a complimentary ticket | - |
| (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, straits |
| (noun) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer) | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, notch |
| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: strait, straits |
| (noun) (military) a written leave of absence | - |
| (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
| (verb) go across or through | - |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
| (verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
| (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
| (verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
| (verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
| passable | (adjective) able to be passed or traversed or crossed | - |
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| (adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: adequate, fair to middling, tolerable |
| passably | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
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| passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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| passage | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: transit |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: enactment |
| (noun) the act of passing something to another person | Synonyms: handing over |
| (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passing |
| (noun) a way through or along which someone or something may pass | - |
| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passageway |
| (noun) a section of text; particularly a section of medium length | - |
| (noun) a short section of a musical composition | Synonyms: musical passage |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passing |
| passageway | (noun) a passage between rooms or between buildings | - |
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| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passage |
| passant | (adjective) in walking position with right foreleg raised | - |
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| passbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: bankbook |
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| passe | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee |
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| passee | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe |
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| passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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| (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
| (noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
| (noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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| (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
| passim | (adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: throughout |
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| passing | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: pass |
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| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, perfunctory, superficial |
| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transient, transitory |
| (adjective) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | - |
| (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: overtaking |
| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, qualifying |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: pass, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, release |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) the end of something | - |
| (adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: surpassingly |
| passion | (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: love |
| (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passionateness |
| (noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire | - |
| (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: rage |
| passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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| passionately | (adverb) with passion | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: stormily, turbulently |
| passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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| passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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| passionless | (adjective) not passionate | - |
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| (adjective) unmoved by feeling | Synonyms: emotionless |
| passive | (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb | - |
| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: peaceful |
| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: passive voice |
| passively | (adverb) in a passive manner | - |
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| passiveness | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passivity |
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| (noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passivity |
| passivism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, pacifism |
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| passivity | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passiveness |
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| (noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passiveness |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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| (noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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| past | (adjective) earlier than the present time; no longer current | - |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: preceding, retiring |
| (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | Synonyms: past tense |
| (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past times, yesteryear |
| (noun) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) | - |
| (adverb) so as to pass a given point | Synonyms: by |
| pasta | (noun) shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg | Synonyms: alimentary paste |
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| (noun) a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient | - |
| paste | (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard | Synonyms: library paste |
| (noun) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency | - |
| (noun) a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry | - |
| (verb) hit with the fists | - |
| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: glue |
| (verb) cover the surface of | - |
| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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| pasted | (adjective) affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste | Synonyms: glued |
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| pastel | (adjective) lacking in body or vigor | - |
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| (adjective) delicate and pale in color | - |
| (noun) any of various pale or light colors | - |
| pastelike | (adjective) resembling paste in color; pallid | Synonyms: pasty |
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| paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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| (noun) a workman who pastes | - |
| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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| pasteurisation | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurization |
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| pasteurise | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurize |
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| pasteurised | (adjective) having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation | Synonyms: pasteurized |
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| pasteuriser | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteurizer |
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| pasteurization | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurisation |
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| pasteurize | (verb) heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms | Synonyms: pasteurise |
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| pasteurized | (adjective) having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation | Synonyms: pasteurised |
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| pasteurizer | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteuriser |
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