| pent | (adjective) closely confined | Synonyms: shut up |
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| pentacle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentagram, pentangle |
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| pentad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
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| pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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| pentagon | (noun) a five-sided polygon | - |
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| pentagonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentangular |
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| pentagram | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentangle |
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| pentahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having five plane faces | - |
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| pentail | (noun) brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia | Synonyms: pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew |
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| pentamerous | (adjective) divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members | - |
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| pentameter | (noun) a verse line having five metrical feet | - |
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| pentamethylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentylenetetrazol |
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| pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| pentastomid | (noun) wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals | Synonyms: tongue worm |
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| pentasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables | - |
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| pentathlete | (noun) an athlete who competes in a pentathlon | - |
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| pentathlon | (noun) an athletic contest consisting of five different events | - |
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| pentatone | (noun) a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted | Synonyms: pentatonic scale |
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| pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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| pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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| pentazocine | (noun) analgesic drug (trade name Talwin) that is less addictive than morphine | Synonyms: Talwin |
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| pentecostal | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members | - |
| pentecostalism | (noun) the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues | - |
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| penthouse | (noun) an apartment located on the top floors of a building | - |
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| pentimento | (noun) the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age) | - |
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| pentlandite | (noun) a mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel | - |
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| pentobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic | Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital sodium, yellow jacket |
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| pentode | (noun) a thermionic tube having five electrodes | - |
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| pentose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule | - |
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| pentoxide | (noun) an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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| pentoxifylline | (noun) a drug (trade name Trental) used to treat claudication; believed to increase the flexibility of red blood cells so they can flow through the blood vessels to the legs and feet | Synonyms: Trental |
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| pentylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentamethylenetetrazol |
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