PAULINE
First name PAULINE's origin is Unknown. PAULINE means "Meaning Unknown". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PAULINE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pauline.(Brown names are of the same origin (Unknown) with PAULINE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming PAULINE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PAULƯNE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH PAULƯNE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (auline) - Names That Ends with auline:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (uline) - Names That Ends with uline:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (line) - Names That Ends with line:
aceline jacqueline adeline evangeline cymbeline cymbelline aline angeline arline aveline carmeline caroline cateline catline celine charline coraline darline earline ediline emeline emmeline erline evaline eveline faline jackeline jacqualine jaqueline joceline joline josceline joyceline karline karoline kateline khrystalline lurline madeline marceline michaeline micheline pascaline hline line opaline oline edeline apolline marline emmalineRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ine) - Names That Ends with ine:
ankine lucine eguskine jensine larine nielsine petrine alaine albertine alexandrine ermengardine marjolaine alfonsine ambrosine celandine lexine nerine columbine turquine uwaine locrine adine aelfwine aethelwine aine alastrine alexine alhertine alphonsine ardine arthurine avelaine berdine bernadine bettine birdine carmine catharine catherine celestine charlaine charmaine charmine cherine christine claudine clementine conradine corrineNAMES RHYMING WITH PAULƯNE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (paulin) - Names That Begins with paulin:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (pauli) - Names That Begins with pauli:
paulitaRhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (paul) - Names That Begins with paul:
paul paula pauloc paulsonRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pau) - Names That Begins with pau:
pauwauRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pa) - Names That Begins with pa:
paaveli paavo pabla pablo pacho pachu'a paciencia paco pacorro padarn paddy paden padgett padma padraic padraig padraigin padriac padric padruig paegastun paeivi paella pafko pag page paget pahana paharita paien paige paili paine paislee paiton paityn pajackok paki pakuna pakwa palaemon palamedes palassa palba palban paliki pall pallatin pallaton palmer palmere palmira paloma palomydes palsmedes palt-el palti pamela pamuy pamuya pan panagiota panagiotis pancho pancratius pandara pandareos pandarus pandora pannoowau panphila pansy pant panteleimon panthea panya paola paolo papan papandr paquita parfait paris parisch park parke parker parkin parkins parkinson parlan parle parmis parnallNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PAULƯNE:
First Names which starts with 'pau' and ends with 'ine':
First Names which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'ne':
payneFirst Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'e':
parthenie pascale pasiphae pasquale patience patrice pazice peace pearce pedrine peirce pellinore pendewe penelope pensee pepe percyvelle peregrine perke persephone persephonie perye perzsike peta-gaye pete peterke petre petronille phebe phemie philipe philippe philippine phillipe phoebe pierce pierette pierre pierrette pike pimne pipere pivane plaise pleasure podarge pommelraie pommeraie ponce porsche prentice prince procne promyse pruie prunellie psyche ptaysanwee pyrene pyrenieEnglish Words Rhyming PAULINE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PAULƯNE AS A WHOLE:
pauline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PAULƯNE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (auline) - English Words That Ends with auline:
acauline | adjective (a.) Same as Acaulescent. |
cauline | adjective (a.) Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (uline) - English Words That Ends with uline:
acervuline | adjective (a.) Resembling little heaps. |
animalculine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. |
baculine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod. |
circuline | adjective (a.) Proceeding in a circle; circular. |
crepusculine | adjective (a.) Crepuscular. |
figuline | noun (n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects. |
adjective (a.) Suitable for the making of pottery; fictile; -- said of clay. | |
adjective (a.) Made of clay, as by the potter; -- said of vessels, ornamental figures, or the like; as, figuline ware. |
induline | noun (n.) Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet. |
noun (n.) A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black. |
lupuline | noun (n.) An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid. |
masculine | adjective (a.) Of the male sex; not female. |
adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males. | |
adjective (a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender. |
mouline | noun (n.) Alt. of Moulinet |
penduline | noun (n.) A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers. |
reguline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to regulus. |
ursuline | noun (n.) One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns. |
vituline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a calf or veal. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (line) - English Words That Ends with line:
alkaline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. |
amygdaline | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds. |
aniline | noun (n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made. |
adjective (a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline. |
antalkaline | noun (n.) Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. |
adjective (a.) Of power to counteract alkalies. |
aquiline | adjective (a.) Belonging to or like an eagle. |
adjective (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose |
anticline | noun (n.) A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal. |
bandoline | noun (n.) A glutinous pomatum for the fair. |
benzoline | noun (n.) Same as Benzole. |
noun (n.) Same as Amarine. |
berylline | adjective (a.) Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color. |
bowline | noun (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. |
bubaline | adjective (a.) Resembling a buffalo. |
buntline | noun (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in. |
caballine | noun (n.) Caballine aloes. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a horse. |
cappeline | noun (n.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb. |
capitoline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. |
capreoline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the roebuck. |
carline | noun (n.) Alt. of Caroline |
noun (n.) Alt. of Carling |
caroline | noun (n.) A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents. |
noun (n.) A coin. See Carline. |
chinoline | noun (n.) See Quinoline. |
choline | noun (n.) See Neurine. |
chrysaniline | noun (n.) A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color. |
cinnoline | noun (n.) A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds. |
clothesline | noun (n.) A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. |
colline | noun (n.) A small hill or mount. |
compline | noun (n.) Alt. of Complin |
contline | noun (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope. |
noun (n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side. |
coralline | noun (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches. |
noun (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. | |
adjective (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. |
corolline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a corolla. |
corrovaline | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart. |
cosmoline | noun (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly. |
covelline | noun (n.) Alt. of Covellite |
crinoline | noun (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair. |
noun (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt. |
crotaline | adjective (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family. |
cryptocrystalline | adjective (a.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope. |
crystalline | noun (n.) A crystalline substance. |
noun (n.) See Aniline. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of crystal. | |
adjective (a.) Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. | |
adjective (a.) Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized. | |
adjective (a.) Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. |
discipline | noun (n.) The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. |
noun (n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. | |
noun (n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. | |
noun (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. | |
noun (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. | |
noun (n.) The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. | |
noun (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. | |
noun (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge. | |
noun (n.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline. | |
verb (v. t.) To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. | |
verb (v. t.) To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. | |
verb (v. t.) To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. | |
verb (v. t.) To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. |
dispoline | noun (n.) One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids. |
ecboline | noun (n.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion. |
feline | adjective (a.) Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity. |
adjective (a.) Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners. |
flavaniline | noun (n.) A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline. |
fringilline | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike. |
gantline | noun (n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline. |
gasoline | noun (n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor. |
() Alt. of Gasolene, engine |
ghibelline | noun (n.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. |
girtline | noun (n.) A gantline. |
glyoxaline | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline. |
gobline | noun (n.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline. |
gralline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Grallae. |
haloxyline | noun (n.) An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder. |
harmaline | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ine) - English Words That Ends with ine:
abietine | noun (n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
acacine | noun (n.) Gum arabic. |
acalycine | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous |
acanthine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. |
acarine | adjective (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases. |
accipitrine | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. |
acolyctine | noun (n.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. |
aconitine | noun (n.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite. |
adamantine | adjective (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. |
adjective (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster. |
adulterine | noun (n.) An illegitimate child. |
adjective (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. |
agatine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate. |
alabastrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs. |
alanine | noun (n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia. |
aldine | adjective (a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works. |
alexandrine | noun (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. |
algerine | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria. |
almandine | noun (n.) The common red variety of garnet. |
almondine | noun (n.) See Almandine |
alpestrine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc. |
adjective (a.) Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the timbe/ line; subalpine. |
alphonsine | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284). |
alpine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants. |
adjective (a.) Like the Alps; lofty. |
altheine | noun (n.) Asparagine. |
alumine | noun (n.) Alumina. |
alvine | adjective (a.) Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions. |
amandine | noun (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds. |
noun (n.) A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. |
amanitine | noun (n.) The poisonous principle of some fungi. |
amaranthine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amaranth. |
adjective (a.) Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. | |
adjective (a.) Of a purplish color. |
amarine | noun (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds. |
amethystine | adjective (a.) Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet. |
adjective (a.) Composed of, or containing, amethyst. |
amine | noun (n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical. |
anatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike. |
andesine | noun (n.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes. |
andine | adjective (a.) Andean; as, Andine flora. |
angevine | noun (n.) A native of Anjou. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PAULƯNE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (paulin) - Words That Begins with paulin:
paulin | noun (n.) See Tarpaulin. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (pauli) - Words That Begins with pauli:
paulian | noun (n.) Alt. of Paulianist |
paulianist | noun (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ. |
paulician | noun (n.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New. |
paulist | noun (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (paul) - Words That Begins with paul:
paul | noun (n.) See Pawl. |
noun (n.) An Italian silver coin. See Paolo. |
pauldron | noun (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece. |
paulownia | noun (n.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pau) - Words That Begins with pau:
pau | noun (n.) See Pah. |
pauciloquent | adjective (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech. |
pauciloquy | noun (n.) Brevity in speech. |
paucispiral | adjective (a.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell. |
paucity | noun (n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. |
noun (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. |
paugie | noun (n.) Alt. of Paugy |
paugy | noun (n.) The scup. See Porgy, and Scup. |
pauhaugen | noun (n.) The menhaden; -- called also poghaden. |
paunce | noun (n.) The pansy. |
paunch | noun (n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen. |
noun (n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch. | |
noun (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper. | |
verb (v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. | |
verb (v. t.) To stuff with food. |
paunching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paunch |
paunchy | adjective (a.) Pot-bellied. |
paune | noun (n.) A kind of bread. See Pone. |
pauper | noun (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor. |
pauperism | noun (n.) The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. |
pauperization | noun (n.) The act or process of reducing to pauperism. |
pauperizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pauperize |
pauropoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae. |
pause | noun (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. |
noun (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. | |
noun (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts. | |
noun (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses. | |
noun (n.) A break or paragraph in writing. | |
noun (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7. | |
noun (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. | |
noun (n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. | |
noun (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. | |
noun (n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. |
pausing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pause |
pauser | noun (n.) One who pauses. |
pauxi | noun (n.) A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PAULƯNE:
English Words which starts with 'pau' and ends with 'ine':
English Words which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'ne':
pacane | noun (n.) A species of hickory. See Pecan. |
padrone | noun (n.) A patron; a protector. |
noun (n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. | |
noun (n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc. |
paeonine | noun (n.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline. |
palatine | noun (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count. |
noun (n.) The Palatine hill in Rome. | |
noun (n.) A palatine bone. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate. |
pallone | noun (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball. |
palmitone | noun (n.) The ketone of palmitic acid. |
palsgravine | noun (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave. |
paludine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh. |
palustrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy. |
pane | noun (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen. |
noun (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern. | |
noun (n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown. | |
noun (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes. | |
noun (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash. | |
noun (n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain. | |
noun (n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides. | |
noun (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond. |
pantherine | adjective (a.) Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil. |
papaverine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine. |
papyrine | noun (n.) Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid. |
paraconine | noun (n.) A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia. |
paracymene | noun (n.) Same as Cymene. |
paraffine | noun (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins. |
paragrandine | noun (n.) An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr/le. |
paranaphthalene | noun (n.) Anthracene; -- called also paranaphthaline. |
paranthracene | noun (n.) An inert isomeric modification of anthracene. |
parapeptone | noun (n.) An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice. |
paraselene | noun (n.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion. |
paraxylene | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene. |
pardine | adjective (a.) Spotted like a pard. |
parietine | noun (n.) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. |
parisienne | noun (n.) A female native or resident of Paris. |
parkesine | noun (n.) A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile. |
paroxytone | adjective (a.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable. |
parvoline | noun (n.) A liquid base, C/H/N, of the pyridine group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isometric substances of which it is the type. |
passerine | noun (n.) One of the Passeres. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Passeres. |
pathogene | noun (n.) One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene. |
patine | noun (n.) A plate. See Paten. |
pavone | noun (n.) A peacock. |
pavonine | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo. |
adjective (a.) Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. |
paytine | noun (n.) An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru. |
panne | noun (n.) A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close. |