pedesis | (noun) the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid | Synonyms: Brownian motion, Brownian movement |
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pedestal | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, stand |
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(noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, plinth |
(noun) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) | - |
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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pedicab | (noun) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire | Synonyms: cycle rickshaw |
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pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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pedicle | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicel |
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pediculicide | (noun) a chemical agent that kills lice | - |
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pediculosis | (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: lousiness |
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pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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(verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
pedigree | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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(noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
(noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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pedlar | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pitchman |
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pedodontist | (noun) a dentist who specializes in the care of children's teeth | - |
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pedology | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pediatrics |
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pedometer | (noun) measuring instrument for recording the number of steps taken in walking | - |
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pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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pedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: paedophilia |
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peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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(noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
(noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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pedwood | (noun) European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers | Synonyms: blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, red dogwood |
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pee | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: peeing, piss, pissing |
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(noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: piddle, piss, urine, water, weewee |
(verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
peeing | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, piss, pissing |
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peek | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peep |
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(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, glint |
peekaboo | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: bopeep |
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peel | (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: skin |
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(verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
(verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
(verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
peeled | (adjective) (used informally) completely unclothed | Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, raw, stark naked |
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peeler | (noun) a device for peeling vegetables or fruits | - |
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(noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
(noun) a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables | - |
peeling | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, shedding |
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peen | (noun) the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes) | - |
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peep | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peek |
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(noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: cheep |
(verb) appear as though from hiding | - |
(verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, chirrup |
(verb) speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice | - |
(verb) look furtively | - |
(verb) cause to come into view | - |
peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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(noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
(noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
peephole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, spyhole |
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peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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(noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
peepul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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peer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, match |
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(noun) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage | - |
(verb) look searchingly | - |
peerage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: baronage |
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peeress | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, noblewoman |
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peerless | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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peerlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: matchlessness |
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peeve | (noun) an annoyed or irritated mood | - |
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(verb) cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful | - |
peeved | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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peevishly | (adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: fractiously, querulously |
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peevishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance |
peewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
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(noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, runt, shrimp |
peewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, pewit |
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(noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
peg | (noun) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface | Synonyms: nog |
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(noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
(noun) regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument | - |
(noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, pegleg, wooden leg |
(noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: pin, stick |
(noun) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. | Synonyms: pin |
(verb) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations | - |
(verb) fasten or secure with a wooden pin | Synonyms: peg down |
(verb) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into | - |
(verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail, nail down |
pegboard | (noun) a board perforated with regularly spaced holes into which pegs can be fitted | - |
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pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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pejoratively | (adverb) in a pejorative manner | - |
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pekan | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher, fisher cat, Martes pennanti |
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pekoe | (noun) a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java | Synonyms: orange pekoe |
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pel | (noun) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot) | Synonyms: picture element, pixel |
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pelage | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: coat |
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pelagic | (adjective) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean | Synonyms: oceanic |
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pelecypod | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypodous |
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(noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, lamellibranch |
pelecypodous | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
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pelf | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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peliosis | (noun) any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | Synonyms: purpura |
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pelisse | (noun) a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur | - |
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pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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(noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
pellucid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous |
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(adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, transparent |
pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
pellucidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, perspicuously |
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pellucidness | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidity |
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pelmet | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, valance, valance board |
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pelota | (noun) a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket | Synonyms: jai alai |
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pelt | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, skin |
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(noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: fur |
(verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
(verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
peltate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) | Synonyms: shield-shaped |
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pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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(noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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peludo | (noun) Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts | Synonyms: Euphractus sexcinctus, poyou |
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pelvic | (adjective) of or relating to the pelvis | - |
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pelvimeter | (noun) measuring instrument for performing pelvimetry | - |
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pelvimetry | (noun) measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible) | - |
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pelvis | (noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle |
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(noun) a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | Synonyms: renal pelvis |
pelycosaur | (noun) large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America | - |
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pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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pemmican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemican |
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pemphigous | (adjective) of or relating to or manifesting pemphigus | - |
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pemphigus | (noun) a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane | - |
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pen | (noun) female swan | - |
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(noun) a writing implement with a point from which ink flows | - |
(noun) an enclosure for confining livestock | - |
(noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: penitentiary |
(noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: playpen |
(verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
penal | (adjective) of or relating to punishment | - |
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(adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: punishable |
(adjective) serving as or designed to impose punishment | - |
penalisation | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalization, penalty, punishment |
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penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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penalization | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalty, punishment |
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penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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penally | (adverb) in a way intended to punish | Synonyms: punitively, punitorily |
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