Name Report For First Name PURA:
PURA
First name PURA's origin is Spanish. PURA means "pure". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PURA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pura.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with PURA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PURA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PURA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PURA AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH PURA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ura) - Names That Ends with ura:
asura iyangura katura sanura zuhura noura shukura azura isaura saura maura menkaura runihura allura frescura laura nura sakura taura ventura youra yura aura alura keturaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ra) - Names That Ends with ra:
aurora azmera chinara efra japera nadra tandra estra moira soumra adra aludra alzubra badra bahira bushra johara nasira samira thara' yusra gadara adora chamorra senora thora dendera kakra mukamutara mukantagara sagira subira zahra ceara abdera aethra aldara ara astra calandra cassandra cleopatra clytemnestra cynara cyra cythera deianira dora electra fedora hemera hera hilaeira hydra hypermnestra isadora kleopatra lysandra madora marmara metanira musidora pandora phaedra pheodora sapphira theodora theora thera vara adira afra zemira candra chaitraNAMES RHYMING WITH PURA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pur) - Names That Begins with pur:
pureza purisimaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pu) - Names That Begins with pu:
puebla pueblo puengi pulan pules pution putnamNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PURA:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'a':
pabla pachu'a paciencia padma paella pahana paharita pakuna pakwa palassa palba palmira paloma pamela pamuya panagiota pandara panphila panthea panya paola paquita parnella parsa parthenia pascala pasclina pasha pastora patricia patrina patrizia paula paulita pavla paza pazia peada pedra pekka pelagia pelicia pelopia penda penina pennlea penthea penthesilea penthia pepita perahta perfecta pesha peta peterka petra petrica petrina petronela petronilla petunia phaethusa phedora phiala phila philana philberta philipinna philippa phillida phillina phillipa philomela philomena philomina philothea pia pierretta pietra pippa piroska pista pithasthana placida polikwaptiwa poloma polyhymnia polyxena portia posala powaqa pramlocha praza primavera priscilla priyana priyanka prudencia prunella pyrenaEnglish Words Rhyming PURA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PURA AS A WHOLE:
| depurant | noun (a. & n.) Depurative. |
| depurate | adjective (a.) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. |
| verb (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse. |
| depurating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depurate |
| depuration | noun (n.) The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound. |
| depurative | noun (n.) A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative. |
| adjective (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. |
| depurator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses. |
| depuratory | adjective (a.) Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative. |
| epuration | noun (n.) Purification. |
| hypural | adjective (a.) Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes. |
| impuration | noun (n.) Defilement; obscuration. |
| purana | noun (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas. |
| puranic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Puranas. |
| purpura | noun (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye. |
| purpurate | noun (n.) A salt of purpuric acid. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to purpura. |
| suppurant | noun (n.) A suppurative. |
| suppurating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suppurate |
| suppuration | noun (n.) The act or process of suppurating. |
| noun (n.) The matter produced by suppuration; pus. |
| suppurative | noun (n.) A suppurative medicine. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PURA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ura) - English Words That Ends with ura:
| acciaccatura | noun (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. |
| amphineura | noun (n. pl.) A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves. |
| anisopleura | noun (n. pl.) A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed. |
| anomura | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Anomoura |
| anomoura | noun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example. |
| anoplura | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which includes the lice. |
| anoura | noun (n.) See Anura. |
| anura | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. |
| appoggiatura | noun (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony. |
| arthropleura | noun (n.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere. |
| asura | noun (n.) An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants. |
| aura | noun (n.) Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc. |
| noun (n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. |
| brachyura | noun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| branchiura | noun (n. pl.) A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus). |
| bravura | noun (n.) A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. |
| caesura | noun (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. |
| cesura | noun (n.) See Caesura. |
| chelura | noun (n.) A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber. |
| cinura | noun (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma. |
| crura | noun (n. pl.) See Crus. |
| (pl. ) of Crus |
| caelatura | noun (n.) Art of producing metal decorative work other than statuary, as reliefs, intaglios, engraving, chasing, etc. |
| datura | noun (n.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. |
| doura | noun (n.) A kind of millet. See Durra. |
| dura | noun (n.) Short form for Dura mater. |
| endopleura | noun (n.) The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen. |
| eudipleura | noun (n. pl.) The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. |
| euthyneura | noun (n. pl.) A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata. |
| gastrura | noun (n. pl.) See Stomatopoda. |
| goura | noun (n.) One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species. |
| haminura | noun (n.) A large edible river fish (Erythrinus macrodon) of Guiana. |
| isopleura | noun (n. pl.) A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal. |
| jura | noun (n.) 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland. |
| noun (n.) The Jurassic period. See Jurassic. |
| laura | noun (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. |
| legatura | noun (n.) A tie or brace; a syncopation. |
| macroura | adjective (a.) Alt. of Macroural |
| macrura | noun (n. pl.) A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda. |
| mistura | noun (n.) A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. |
| myeloneura | noun (n. pl.) The Vertebrata. |
| ophiura | noun (n.) A genus of ophiurioid starfishes. |
| parapleura | noun (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects. |
| pictura | noun (n.) Pattern of coloration. |
| pleura | noun (n.) pl. of Pleuron. |
| noun (n. fem.) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. | |
| noun (n. fem.) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall. | |
| noun (n. fem.) Same as Pleuron. | |
| (pl. ) of Pleuron |
| podura | noun (n.) Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. |
| rhabdopleura | noun (n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata |
| streptoneura | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata. |
| sura | noun (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number. |
| tarsiatura | noun (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood. |
| thysanura | noun (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura. |
| vettura | noun (n.) An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach. |
| xiphosura | noun (n. pl.) See Xiphura. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PURA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pur) - Words That Begins with pur:
| purverable | adjective (a.) Capable of being reduced to fine powder. |
| purring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pur |
| pur | noun (n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure. |
| verb (v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased. | |
| verb (v. t.) To signify or express by purring. |
| purblind | adjective (a.) Wholly blind. |
| adjective (a.) Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. |
| purcelane | noun (n.) Purslane. |
| purchasable | adjective (a.) Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. |
| purchasing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purchase |
| purchaser | noun (n.) One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee. |
| noun (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance. |
| purdah | noun (n.) A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains. |
| pured | adjective (a.) Purified; refined. |
| puree | noun (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated. |
| pureness | noun (n.) The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective). |
| purfile | noun (n.) A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork. |
| purfle | noun (n.) Alt. of Purflew |
| verb (v. t.) To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings. |
| purflew | noun (n.) A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work. |
| noun (n.) A border of any heraldic fur. |
| purfled | adjective (a.) Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges. |
| purfling | noun (n.) Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin. |
| purgament | noun (n.) That which is excreted; excretion. |
| noun (n.) A cathartic; a purgative. |
| purgation | noun (n.) The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels. |
| noun (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal. |
| purgative | noun (n.) A purging medicine; a cathartic. |
| adjective (a.) Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. |
| purgatorial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Purgatorian |
| purgatorian | noun (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory. |
| purgatory | noun (n.) A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. |
| purging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purge |
| noun (n.) The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea. | |
| adjective (a.) That purges; cleansing. |
| purger | noun (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine. |
| purgery | noun (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar. |
| puri | noun (n.) See Euxanthin. |
| purification | noun (n.) The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals. |
| noun (n.) The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. | |
| noun (n.) A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations. |
| purificative | adjective (a.) Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. |
| purificator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier. |
| purrificatory | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to purify; purificative. |
| purifier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner. |
| puriform | adjective (a.) In the form of pus. |
| purifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purify |
| purim | noun (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. |
| purism | noun (n.) Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. |
| purist | noun (n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. |
| noun (n.) One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. |
| puristic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Puristical |
| puristical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to purists or purism. |
| puritan | noun (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England. |
| noun (n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans. |
| puritanic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Puritanical |
| puritanical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. |
| adjective (a.) Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. |
| puritanism | noun (n.) The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans. |
| puritanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puritanize |
| purity | noun (n.) The condition of being pure. |
| noun (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. | |
| noun (n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. | |
| noun (n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life. | |
| noun (n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. | |
| noun (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style. |
| purl | noun (n.) An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. |
| noun (n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | |
| noun (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle. | |
| noun (n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. | |
| noun (n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook. | |
| noun (n.) Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. | |
| noun (n.) A tern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery. | |
| verb (v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. |
| purling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purl |
| noun (n.) The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing. |
| purlieu | noun (n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. |
| noun (n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. |
| purlin | noun (n.) Alt. of Purline |
| purline | noun (n.) In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PURA:
English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 'a':
| paca | noun (n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig. |
| pacha | noun (n.) See Pasha. |
| () The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. |
| pachonta | noun (n.) A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata. |
| pachydermata | noun (n. pl.) A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group. |
| padella | noun (n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle. |
| pagina | noun (n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus. |
| pagoda | noun (n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship. |
| noun (n.) An idol. | |
| noun (n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees. |
| paguma | noun (n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form. |
| paijama | noun (n.) Pyjama. |
| palaestra | noun (n.) See Palestra. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| palanka | noun (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses. |
| palea | noun (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. |
| noun (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. |
| paleechinoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini. |
| paleocarida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata. |
| paleocrinoidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. |
| paleola | noun (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule. |
| palestra | noun (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. |
| noun (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. |
| palingenesia | noun (n.) See Palingenesis. |
| palla | noun (n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches. |
| palliobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Brachiopoda. |
| palmyra | noun (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts. |
| palola | noun (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food. |
| pallometa | noun (n.) A pompano. |
| palpebra | noun (n.) The eyelid. |
| paludina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond. |
| panacea | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction. |
| noun (n.) The herb allheal. |
| panada | noun (n.) Alt. of Panade |
| panda | noun (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India. |
| pandora | noun (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. | |
| noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| pantastomata | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. |
| pantopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Pycnogonida. |
| papa | noun (n.) A child's word for father. |
| noun (n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church. |
| papaphobia | noun (n.) Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| papilla | noun (n.) Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue. |
| papilloma | noun (n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. |
| papula | noun (n.) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. |
| noun (n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. |
| para | noun (n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent. |
| noun (n.) The southern arm of the Amazon in Brazil; also, a seaport on this arm. | |
| noun (n.) Short for Para rubber. |
| parabola | noun (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. |
| noun (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. |
| paracorolla | noun (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus. |
| paraglossa | noun (n.) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera. |
| paramatta | noun (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. |
| paranoia | noun (n.) Mental derangement; insanity. |
| noun (n.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing. |
| parapherna | noun (n. pl.) The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own. |
| paraphernalia | noun (n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree. |
| noun (n. pl.) Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments. |
| paraphagma | noun (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. |
| paraplegia | noun (n.) Alt. of Paraplegy |
| parasita | noun (n. pl.) An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc. |
| noun (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata. |
| parella | noun (n.) Alt. of Parelle |
| parenchyma | noun (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like. |
| paridigitata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Artiodactyla. |
| parkeria | noun (n.) A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball. |
| parnassia | noun (n.) A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus. |
| paronomasia | noun (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. |
| paronychia | noun (n.) A whitlow, or felon. |
| parousia | noun (n.) The nativity of our Lord. |
| noun (n.) The last day. |
| parraqua | noun (n.) A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan. |
| parrhesia | noun (n.) Boldness or freedom of speech. |
| partita | noun (n.) A suite; a set of variations. |
| parusia | noun (n.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events. |
| pascha | noun (n.) The passover; the feast of Easter. |
| pasha | noun (n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. |
| passacaglia | noun (n.) Alt. of Passacaglio |
| passiflora | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. |
| pataca | noun (n.) The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. |
| patela | noun (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli. |
| patella | noun (n.) A small dish, pan, or vase. |
| noun (n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus. |
| patellula | noun (n.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects. |
| patena | noun (n.) A paten. |
| noun (n.) A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon. |
| patera | noun (n.) A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies. |
| noun (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like. |
| pathopoela | noun (n.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. |
| patina | noun (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella. |
| noun (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. |
| paulownia | noun (n.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis. |
| pauropoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae. |
| pea | noun (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard. |
| noun (n.) See Peak, n., 3. | |
| noun (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. | |
| noun (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. |
| peba | noun (n.) An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou. |
| pecora | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle. |
| pectinibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck. |
| pectostraca | noun (n. pl.) A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia. |
| pedata | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill. |
| pedicellaria | noun (n.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| pedicellina | noun (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. |
| pediculina | noun (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| pedimana | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums. |
| pedunculata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles. |
| pela | noun (n.) See Wax insect, under Wax. |
| pelecypoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| pelicosauria | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation. |
| pelioma | noun (n.) A livid ecchymosis. |
| noun (n.) See Peliom. |
| pellagra | noun (n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy. |
| pellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill. |
| pelma | noun (n.) The under surface of the foot. |
| peloria | noun (n.) Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity. |
| pelta | noun (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. |
| noun (n.) A flat apothecium having no rim. |
| penetralia | noun (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home. |
| peninsula | noun (n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus. |
| penna | noun (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather. |
| pennatula | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches. |
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