| 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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