First Names Rhyming PALLATON
English Words Rhyming PALLATON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PALLATON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PALLATON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (allaton) - English Words That Ends with allaton:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (llaton) - English Words That Ends with llaton:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (laton) - English Words That Ends with laton:
checklaton | noun (n.) Ciclatoun. |
| noun (n.) Gilded leather. |
laton | noun (n.) Alt. of Latoun |
shecklaton | noun (n.) A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (aton) - English Words That Ends with aton:
baton | noun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. |
| noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |
hyperbaton | noun (n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." |
raton | noun (n.) A small rat. |
sabbaton | noun (n.) A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress. |
tetragrammaton | noun (n.) The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc. |
yllanraton | noun (n.) The agouara. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ton) - English Words That Ends with ton:
acton | noun (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. |
aketon | noun (n.) See Acton. |
astrophyton | noun (n.) A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched. |
asyndeton | noun (n.) A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton. |
badminton | noun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. |
| noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. |
barbiton | noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. |
barton | noun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. |
| noun (n.) A farmyard. |
baston | noun (n.) A staff or cudgel. |
| noun (n.) See Baton. |
| noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. |
batton | noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton. |
beton | noun (n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion. |
boston | noun (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. |
breton | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France. |
briton | noun (n.) A native of Great Britain. |
| adjective (a.) British. |
burton | noun (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part. |
button | noun (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. |
| noun (n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. |
| noun (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant. |
| noun (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. |
| noun (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. |
| noun (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. |
| noun (n.) To dress or clothe. |
| verb (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button. |
| () Alt. of evil |
canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
| noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. |
| noun (n.) A small community or clan. |
| noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. |
| noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. |
| verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. |
| verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
carton | noun (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. |
caxton | noun (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. |
chiton | noun (n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. |
| noun (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. |
cotton | noun (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. |
| noun (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. |
| noun (n.) Cloth made of cotton. |
| verb (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. |
| verb (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed. |
| verb (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. |
| verb (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. |
croton | noun (n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. |
crouton | noun (n.) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc. |
dermoskeleton | noun (n.) See Exoskeleton. |
emplecton | noun (n.) A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. |
endoskeleton | noun (n.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton. |
exoskeleton | noun (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton. |
feuilleton | noun (n.) A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed. |
fronton | noun (n.) Same as Frontal, 2. |
glutton | noun (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself. |
| noun (n.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. |
| adjective (a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To glut; to eat voraciously. |
hacqueton | noun (n.) Same as Acton. |
haketon | noun (n.) Same as Acton. |
homoioptoton | noun (n.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally. |
indobriton | noun (n.) A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. |
jetton | noun (n.) A metal counter used in playing cards. |
karyomiton | noun (n.) The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell. |
kingston | noun (n.) Alt. of Kingstone |
kytomiton | noun (n.) See Karyomiton. |
krypton | noun (n.) An inert gaseous element of the argon group, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Liquefying point, -- 152¡ C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.0. |
megaphyton | noun (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds. |
melocoton | noun (n.) Alt. of Melocotoon |
melton | noun (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp. |
monton | noun (n.) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation. |
moton | noun (n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later. |
mutton | noun (n.) A sheep. |
| noun (n.) The flesh of a sheep. |
| noun (n.) A loose woman; a prostitute. |
mirliton | noun (n.) A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound. |
neuroskeleton | noun (n.) The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. |
panton | noun (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel. |
phaeton | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses. |
| noun (n.) See Phaethon. |
| noun (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore. |
phlogiston | noun (n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. |
phyton | noun (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PALLATON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (pallato) - Words That Begins with pallato:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (pallat) - Words That Begins with pallat:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (palla) - Words That Begins with palla:
palla | noun (n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches. |
palladian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century. |
palladic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds. |
palladious | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds. |
palladium | noun (n.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. |
| noun (n.) Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. |
| noun (n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2. |
palladiumizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paladiumize |
pallah | noun (n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok. |
pallas | noun (n.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (pall) - Words That Begins with pall:
pall | noun (n.) Same as Pawl. |
| noun (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle. |
| noun (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. |
| noun (n.) Same as Pallium. |
| noun (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. |
| noun (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. |
| noun (n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. |
| noun (n.) Nausea. |
| adjective (a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. |
| verb (v. t.) To cloak. |
| verb (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. |
| verb (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. |
palling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pall |
pallbearer | noun (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. |
pallet | noun (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. |
| noun (n.) Same as Palette. |
| noun (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. |
| noun (n.) A potter's wheel. |
| noun (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. |
| noun (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. |
| noun (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. |
| noun (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. |
| noun (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. |
| noun (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. |
| noun (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. |
| noun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. |
| noun (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons. |
pallial | adjective (a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve. |
palliament | noun (n.) A dress; a robe. |
palliard | noun (n.) A born beggar; a vagabond. |
| noun (n.) A lecher; a lewd person. |
palliasse | noun (n.) See Paillasse. |
palliate | adjective (a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised. |
| adjective (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. |
palliating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palliate |
palliation | noun (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. |
| noun (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. |
| noun (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. |
palliative | noun (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. |
palliatory | adjective (a.) Palliative; extenuating. |
pallid | adjective (a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. |
pallidity | noun (n.) Pallidness; paleness. |
pallidness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness. |
palliobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Brachiopoda. |
palliobranchiate | adjective (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods. |
pallium | noun (n.) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment. |
| noun (n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall. |
| noun (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle. |
| noun (n.) The mantle of a bird. |
pallone | noun (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball. |
pallor | adjective (a.) Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. |
pallometa | noun (n.) A pompano. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pal) - Words That Begins with pal:
pal | noun (n.) A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. |
palace | noun (n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. |
| noun (n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. |
| noun (n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. |
palacious | adjective (a.) Palatial. |
paladin | noun (n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. |
palaeographer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palaeographic |
palaeographic | adjective (a.) See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc. |
palaeotype | noun (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. |
palaestra | noun (n.) See Palestra. |
palaestric | adjective (a.) See Palestric. |
palaetiologist | noun (n.) One versed in palaetiology. |
palaetiology | noun (n.) The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. |
palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
palamedeae | noun (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds. |
palampore | noun (n.) See Palempore. |
palanka | noun (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses. |
palanquin | noun (n.) An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. |
palapteryx | noun (n.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand. |
palatability | noun (n.) Palatableness. |
palatable | adjective (a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice. |
palatableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness. |
palatal | noun (n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones. |
| adjective (a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk. |
palate | noun (n.) The roof of the mouth. |
| noun (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. |
| noun (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon. |
| verb (v. t.) To perceive by the taste. |
palatial | noun (n.) A palatal letter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures. |
| adjective (a.) Palatal; palatine. |
palatic | noun (n.) A palatal. |
| adjective (a.) Palatal; palatine. |
palatinate | noun (n.) The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a palatinate of. |
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. |
palative | adjective (a.) Pleasing to the taste; palatable. |
palatonares | noun (n. pl.) The posterior nares. See Nares. |
palatopterygoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed. |
palaver | noun (n.) Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. |
| noun (n.) In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. |
palavering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palaver |
palaverer | noun (n.) One who palavers; a flatterer. |
pale | noun (n.) Paleness; pallor. |
| noun (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. |
| noun (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. |
| noun (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. |
| noun (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment. |
| noun (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it. |
| noun (n.) A cheese scoop. |
| noun (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. |
| verb (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. |
| verb (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. |
| verb (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster. |
| verb (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. |
| verb (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. |
paling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pale |
| noun (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. |
| noun (n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. |
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. |
paleaceous | adjective (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle. |
palearctic | adjective (a.) Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia. |
paled | adjective (a.) Striped. |
| adjective (a.) Inclosed with a paling. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Pale |
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. |
paleface | noun (n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. |
paleichthyes | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. |
palely | adjective (a.) In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. |
palempore | noun (n.) A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. |
paleness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness. |
palenque | noun (n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras. |
paleobotanist | noun (n.) One versed in paleobotany. |
paleobotany | noun (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants. |
paleocarida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata. |
paleocrinoidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. |
paleocrystic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PALLATON:
English Words which starts with 'pal' and ends with 'ton':
English Words which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'on':
pabulation | noun (n.) The act of feeding, or providing food. |
| noun (n.) Food; fodder; pabulum. |
pacation | noun (n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking. |
pacification | noun (n.) The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. |
paction | noun (n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain. |
padelion | noun (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. |
pademelon | noun (n.) See Wallaby. |
paeon | noun (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. |
pagination | noun (n.) The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. |
palification | noun (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. |
palpation | noun (n.) Act of touching or feeling. |
| noun (n.) Examination of a patient by touch. |
palpitation | noun (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease. |
pandiculation | noun (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy. |
panelation | noun (n.) The act of impaneling a jury. |
panification | noun (n.) The act or process of making bread. |
panopticon | noun (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. |
| noun (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties. |
panpharmacon | noun (n.) A medicine for all diseases; a panacea. |
panshon | noun (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. |
pantaloon | noun (n.) A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. |
| noun (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one. |
| noun (n.) In recent times, same as Trousers. |
pantechnicon | noun (n.) A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. |
pantheon | noun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. |
| noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. |
papion | noun (n.) A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint. |
paragon | noun (n.) A companion; a match; an equal. |
| noun (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition. |
| noun (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. |
| noun (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type. |
| verb (v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. |
| verb (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival. |
| verb (v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass. |
| verb (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison. |
paralipomenon | noun (n. pl.) A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles. |
parallelopipedon | noun (n.) A parallelopiped. |
paralyzation | noun (n.) The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed. |
parelcon | noun (n.) The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb. |
parentation | noun (n.) Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. |
parergon | noun (n.) See Parergy. |
parhelion | noun (n.) A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene. |
paroophoron | noun (n.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male. |
parson | noun (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls. |
| noun (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher. |
parthenon | noun (n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art. |
participation | noun (n.) The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. |
| noun (n.) Distribution; division into shares. |
| noun (n.) community; fellowship; association. |
particularization | noun (n.) The act of particularizing. |
parturition | noun (n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth. |
| noun (n.) That which is brought forth; a birth. |
passion | noun (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. |
| noun (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action. |
| noun (n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents. |
| noun (n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. |
| noun (n.) Disorder of the mind; madness. |
| noun (n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below. |
| verb (v. t.) To give a passionate character to. |
| verb (v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. |
pasteurization | noun (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments. |
patacoon | noun (n.) See Pataca. |
patefaction | noun (n.) The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. |
patrocination | noun (n.) The act of patrocinating or patronizing. |
patron | noun (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. |
| noun (n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him. |
| noun (n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself. |
| noun (n.) An advocate or pleader. |
| noun (n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art. |
| noun (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. |
| noun (n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint. |
| noun (n.) See Padrone, 2. |
| adjective (a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary. |
| verb (v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. |
patronization | noun (n.) The act of patronizing; patronage; support. |
patroon | noun (n.) One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey. |
pauldron | noun (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece. |
pauperization | noun (n.) The act or process of reducing to pauperism. |
pavilion | noun (n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. |
| noun (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile. |
| noun (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. |
| noun (n.) Same as Tent (Her.) |
| noun (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant. |
| noun (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. |
| noun (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. |
pavon | noun (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon. |
paillon | noun (n.) A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium. |