pedagog | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagogue |
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pedagogic | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogical |
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pedagogical | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogic |
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pedagogically | (adverb) in a didactic manner | Synonyms: didactically |
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pedagogics | (noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching method |
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pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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pedagogy | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, teaching |
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(noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, teaching |
(noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogics, teaching method |
pedal | (adjective) of or relating to the feet | - |
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(noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, treadle |
(noun) a sustained bass note | Synonyms: pedal point |
(verb) operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument | - |
(verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel |
pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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pedant | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, scholastic |
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pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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pedantically | (adverb) in a pedantic manner | - |
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pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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pedate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having radiating lobes, each deeply cleft or divided | - |
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(adjective) having or resembling a foot | - |
peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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(noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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pedelec | (noun) a bicycle built with a motor to aid the cyclist to turn the pedals | - |
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pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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pederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: paederasty |
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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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