Name Report For First Name PARIS:
PARIS
First name PARIS's origin is French. PARIS means "the french capital". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PARIS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of paris.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with PARIS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PARIS - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PARIS
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PARÝS AS A WHOLE:
parischNAMES RHYMING WITH PARÝS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (aris) - Names That Ends with aris:
maris amaris charis karis faris haris claris damarisRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ris) - Names That Ends with ris:
theoris beitris aleris chloris cypris doris eldoris eris iris lycoris lyris busiris idris bleoberis kramoris joris onuris osiris thamyris tigris audris deloris edris loris chris cris cyris farris gaheris harris morris oris perris teris norris terris cloris ferrisRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (is) - Names That Ends with is:
garmangabis sulis bilqis lamis isis lapis memphis thermuthis aldis flordelis aigneis leitis alcestis amaryllis artemis briseis chryseis clematis coronis eudosis lachesis lais lilis metis nemesis persis symaethis thais themis thetis jyotis hausis nokomis damis dassais eblis yunis anis rais avedis alis naois felis amenophis anubis apis apophis serapis willis alois acis adonis aegis attisNAMES RHYMING WITH PARÝS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (pari) - Names That Begins with pari:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (par) - Names That Begins with par:
parfait park parke parker parkin parkins parkinson parlan parle parmis parnall parnel parnell parnella parounag parr parrish parsa parsefal parsi parsifal parth parthalan parthenia parthenie parthenios parttyli parzifalRhyming 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 pansyNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PARÝS:
First Names which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'is':
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 's':
patroclus pegasus peisistratus peleus pelias pelleas pelles pelops peneus pentheus peredurus peredwus pericles perkins perseus persius petrus phantasos phelps phemius pheobus philips phillips phillis philoctetes philoetius phineas phinees phineus phorbas phorbus phorcys phrixus phylis phyllis piaras piers pinochos pirithous pittheus pityocamptes pius plexippus plutus polites polydamas polydeuces polydorus polyeidus polynices polyphemus pontus prasutagus prentiss priapus procrustes proinsias prokopios prometheus protesilaus proteus pslomydes psusennes pules pylades pyramus pyrrhusEnglish Words Rhyming PARIS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PARÝS AS A WHOLE:
| caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
| noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
| caparisoning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caparison |
| comparison | noun (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. |
| noun (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them. | |
| noun (n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. | |
| noun (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. | |
| noun (n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel. | |
| noun (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compare. |
| fissiparism | noun (n.) Reproduction by spontaneous fission. |
| imparisyllabic | adjective (a.) Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. |
| intercomparison | noun (n.) Mutual comparison of corresponding parts. |
| outparish | noun (n.) A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. |
| paris | noun (n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic. |
| noun (n.) The chief city of France. |
| parish | noun (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. |
| noun (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live. | |
| noun (n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. |
| parishen | noun (n.) A parishioner. |
| parishional | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. |
| parishioner | noun (n.) One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish. |
| parisian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paris. |
| parisienne | noun (n.) A female native or resident of Paris. |
| parisology | noun (n.) The use of equivocal or ambiguous words. |
| parisyllabic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Parisyllabical |
| parisyllabical | adjective (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PARÝS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (aris) - English Words That Ends with aris:
| anacharis | noun (n.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme. |
| cantharis | noun (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine. |
| eucharis | noun (n.) A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms. |
| polaris | noun (n.) The polestar. See North star, under North. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ris) - English Words That Ends with ris:
| ambergris | noun (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212ˇ Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. |
| arris | noun (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. |
| butteris | noun (n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses. |
| cantoris | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. |
| cerris | noun (n.) A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak. |
| clitoris | noun (n.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male. |
| cypris | noun (n.) A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus. |
| debris | noun (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base. |
| noun (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins. |
| delthyris | noun (n.) A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. |
| doris | noun (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back. |
| epacris | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths. |
| ephemeris | noun (n.) A diary; a journal. |
| noun (n.) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac." | |
| noun (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. | |
| noun (n.) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. |
| gris | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A little pig. |
| adjective (a.) Gray. | |
| adjective (a.) A costly kind of fur. |
| indris | noun (n.) Alt. of Indri |
| iris | noun (n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods. |
| noun (n.) The rainbow. | |
| noun (n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors. | |
| noun (n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce. | |
| noun (n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2. | |
| noun (n.) Inner circle of an oscillated color spot. |
| kris | noun (n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese. |
| lampyris | noun (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms. |
| loris | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. |
| meleagris | noun (n.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys. |
| mistigris | noun (n.) Alt. of Mistigri |
| morris | noun (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets. |
| noun (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters. | |
| noun (n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. | |
| noun (n.) A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish. |
| neuropteris | noun (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation. |
| orris | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. |
| noun (n.) A sort of gold or silver lace. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them. |
| osiris | noun (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. |
| panegyris | noun (n.) A festival; a public assembly. |
| pecopteris | noun (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets. |
| pris | noun (n.) See Price, and 1st Prize. |
| procris | noun (n.) Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves. |
| ris | noun (n.) A bough or branch; a twig. |
| sherris | noun (n.) Sherry. |
| tomopteris | noun (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa. |
| verdigris | noun (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates. |
| noun (n.) The green rust formed on copper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover, or coat, with verdigris. |
| xyris | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PARÝS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (pari) - Words That Begins with pari:
| paring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pare |
| verb (v. t.) The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything. | |
| verb (v. t.) That which is pared off. |
| pariah | noun (n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste. |
| noun (n.) An outcast; one despised by society. |
| parial | noun (n.) See Pair royal, under Pair, n. |
| parian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paros. |
| noun (n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. |
| paridigitata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Artiodactyla. |
| paries | noun (n.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle. |
| parietal | noun (n.) One of the parietal bones. |
| noun (n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them. | |
| adjective (a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college. | |
| adjective (a.) Of pertaining to the parietes. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals. | |
| adjective (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta. |
| parietary | noun (n.) Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory. |
| adjective (a.) See Parietal, 2. |
| parietes | noun (n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium. |
| noun (n. pl.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule. | |
| (pl. ) of Paries |
| parietic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid. |
| parietine | noun (n.) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. |
| parigenin | noun (n.) A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin. |
| parillin | noun (n.) A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin. |
| paripinnate | adjective (a.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end. |
| paritor | noun (n.) An apparitor. |
| paritory | noun (n.) Pellitory. |
| parity | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (par) - Words That Begins with par:
| parchesi | noun (n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India. |
| noun (n.) See Pachisi. | |
| () Alt. of Parchisi |
| par | noun (n.) See Parr. |
| noun (n.) Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. | |
| noun (n.) Equality of condition or circumstances. | |
| noun (n.) An amount which is taken as an average or mean. | |
| noun (n.) The number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play, whereas bogey makes allowance on some holes for human frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82. | |
| prep (prep.) By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay. |
| 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. |
| parabanic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea. |
| parablast | noun (n.) A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. |
| parablastic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells. |
| parable | noun (n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. |
| adjective (a.) Procurable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To represent by parable. |
| 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. |
| parabole | noun (n.) Similitude; comparison. |
| parabolic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Parabolical |
| parabolical | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction. |
| adjective (a.) Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a parabolic curve. | |
| adjective (a.) Generated by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a parabola as a directing curve; as, a parabolic conoid. |
| paraboliform | adjective (a.) Resembling a parabola in form. |
| parabolism | noun (n.) The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. |
| parabolist | noun (n.) A narrator of parables. |
| paraboloid | noun (n.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas. |
| paraboloidal | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid. |
| parabronchium | noun (n.) One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium. |
| paracelsian | noun (n.) A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings. |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century. |
| paracelsist | noun (n.) A Paracelsian. |
| paracentesis | noun (n.) The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping. |
| paracentric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Paracentrical |
| paracentrical | adjective (a.) Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. |
| parachordal | noun (n.) A parachordal cartilage. |
| adjective (a.) Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord. |
| parachronism | noun (n.) An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence. |
| parachrose | adjective (a.) Changing color by exposure |
| parachute | noun (n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence. |
| noun (n.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister. |
| paraclete | noun (n.) An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy Spirit. |
| paraclose | noun (n.) See Parclose. |
| paracmastic | adjective (a.) Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. |
| paraconic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained as a deliquescent white crystalline substance, and isomeric with itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids. |
| paraconine | noun (n.) A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia. |
| paracorolla | noun (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus. |
| paracrostic | noun (n.) A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. |
| paracyanogen | noun (n.) A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide. |
| paracymene | noun (n.) Same as Cymene. |
| paradactylum | noun (n.) The side of a toe or finger. |
| parading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parade |
| paradigm | noun (n.) An example; a model; a pattern. |
| noun (n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection. | |
| noun (n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable. |
| paradigmatic | noun (n.) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Paradigmatical |
| paradigmatical | adjective (a.) Exemplary. |
| paradigmatizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paradigmatize |
| paradisaic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Paradisaical |
| paradisaical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal. |
| paradisal | adjective (a.) Paradisiacal. |
| paradise | noun (n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation. |
| noun (n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death. | |
| noun (n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. | |
| noun (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A churchyard or cemetery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. |
| paradisean | adjective (a.) Paradisiacal. |
| paradised | adjective (a.) Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise. |
| paradisiac | adjective (a.) Alt. of Paradisiacal |
| paradisiacal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise. |
| paradisial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Paradisian |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PARÝS:
English Words which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'is':
| pachymeningitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain. |
| paedogenesis | noun (n.) Reproduction by young or larval animals. |
| pais | noun (n.) The country; the people of the neighborhood. |
| palingenesis | noun (n.) Alt. of Palingenesy |
| pangenesis | noun (n.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity. |
| paragenesis | noun (n.) The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin. |
| noun (n.) The formation of minerals in contact, so as to affect one another's development. | |
| noun (n.) The order in which minerals occurring together in rocks and veins have developed. |
| paraleipsis | noun (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." |
| paralepsis | noun (n.) See Paraleipsis. |
| paralipsis | noun (n.) See Paraleipsis. |
| paralysis | noun (n.) Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively. |
| parametritis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus. |
| paraphimosis | noun (n.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again. |
| paraphysis | noun (n.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants. |
| parapophysis | noun (n.) The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. |
| parasynaxis | noun (n.) An unlawful meeting. |
| parataxis | noun (n.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax. |
| parathesis | noun (n.) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition. |
| noun (n.) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. | |
| noun (n.) The matter contained within brackets. | |
| noun (n.) A commendatory prayer. |
| paremptosis | noun (n.) Same as Parembole. |
| parenesis | noun (n.) Exhortation. |
| parenthesis | noun (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. |
| noun (n.) One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. |
| parepididymis | noun (n.) A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body. |
| paresis | noun (n.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation. |
| parorchis | noun (n.) The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body. |
| parostosis | noun (n.) Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum. |
| parotitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the parotid glands. |
| parthenogenesis | noun (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis. |
| noun (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle. |
| parvis | noun (n.) Alt. of Parvise |
| pathogenesis | noun (n.) Pathogeny. |
| patois | noun (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. |
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