PEER
First name PEER's origin is German. PEER means "a rock. form of peter". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PEER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of peer.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with PEER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming PEER
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PEER AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH PEER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eer) - Names That Ends with eer:
kadeer vanderveer abeer sameer sabeer muneer ameerRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:
clover hesper gauthier iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker xabier usk-water fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer brewster bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler witter symer dexter jesper ogier oliver fearcher keller lawler rainer rutger auster christopher homer kester lysander meleager philander teucer helmer aleksander amber cher claefer codier easter ember ester esther eszter ginger gwenyver heather hester jennyfer jennyver kamber katie-tyler sadler sherrer silver skyller sofier wenhaver abner adler aeker aethelmaer akkerNAMES RHYMING WITH PEER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pee) - Names That Begins with pee:
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pe) - Names That Begins with pe:
peace peada peadar pearce pearroc pearson pedar pedra pedrine pedro peg pegasus pegeen peggy peigi peirce peisistratus pekar pekka pelagia peleus pelias pelicia pell pellam pellanor pellean pelleas pelles pellinore pelltun pelopia pelops pemphredo pemton penarddun penda pendaran pendewe pendragon penelope peneus penina peninah penleigh penley penn pennlea pennleah penny penrith penrod pensee penthea penthesilea pentheus penthia penton peony pepe pephredo pepik pepillo pepin pepita pepper pepperell peppi peppin per perahta perceval percival percy percyvelle perdix peredur peredurus peredwus peregrine perekin pereteanu perfecta pericles perke perkin perkins perkinson pernel pernell perren perrin perris perry perryn persephone persephonie perseus persis persiusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PEER:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'r':
palmer papandr parr peter petr pilar piper polymestor porter porteur portier prior priour pryorEnglish Words Rhyming PEER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PEER AS A WHOLE:
peering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peer |
peer | noun (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate. |
noun (n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate. | |
noun (n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm. | |
verb (v. i.) To come in sight; to appear. | |
verb (v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. | |
verb (v. t.) To make equal in rank. | |
verb (v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal. |
peerage | noun (n.) The rank or dignity of a peer. |
noun (n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. |
peerdom | noun (n.) Peerage; also, a lordship. |
peeress | noun (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage. |
peerie | adjective (a.) Alt. of Peery |
peery | adjective (a.) Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. |
peerless | adjective (a.) Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative. |
peert | adjective (a.) Same as Peart. |
peerweet | noun (n.) Same as Pewit (a & b). |
speer | noun (n.) A sphere. |
verb (v. t.) To ask. |
unpeerable | adjective (a.) Incapable of having a peer, or equal. |
unpeered | adjective (a.) Having no peer; unequaled; unparalleled. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PEER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eer) - English Words That Ends with eer:
agreer | noun (n.) One who agrees. |
ameer | noun (n.) Alt. of Amir |
auctioneer | noun (n.) A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder. |
verb (v. t.) To sell by auction; to auction. |
bandoleer | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandolier |
beer | noun (n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. |
noun (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. |
bellycheer | noun (n.) Good cheer; viands. |
verb (v. i.) To revel; to feast. |
buccaneer | noun (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
verb (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber. |
canceleer | noun (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. |
cannoneer | noun (n.) Alt. of Cannonier |
carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
career | noun (n.) A race course: the ground run over. |
noun (n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course. | |
noun (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. | |
noun (n.) The flight of a hawk. | |
verb (v. i.) To move or run rapidly. |
chanticleer | noun (n.) A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing. |
charioteer | noun (n.) One who drives a chariot. |
noun (n.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones. |
cheer | noun (n.) The face; the countenance or its expression. |
noun (n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. | |
noun (n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation. | |
noun (n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer. | |
noun (n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. | |
verb (v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. | |
verb (v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up. | |
verb (v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind. | |
verb (v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc. |
circuiteer | noun (n.) A circuiter. |
decreer | noun (n.) One who decrees. |
deer | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal. |
noun (n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison. |
disagreer | noun (n.) One who disagrees. |
dungmeer | noun (n.) A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure. |
emeer | noun (n.) Same as Emir. |
noun (n.) An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials. |
engineer | noun (n.) A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n. |
noun (n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver. | |
noun (n.) One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. | |
verb (v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. | |
verb (v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress. |
eyeleteer | noun (n.) A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto. |
fleer | noun (n.) One who flees. |
verb (v. t.) To mock; to flout at. | |
() To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. | |
() To grin with an air of civility; to leer. |
foreseer | noun (n.) One who foresees or foreknows. |
freer | noun (n.) One who frees, or sets free. |
fusileer | noun (n.) Alt. of Fusilier |
garreteer | noun (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. |
gazetteer | noun (n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. |
noun (n.) A newspaper; a gazette. | |
noun (n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places. | |
noun (n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. |
harpooneer | noun (n.) An harpooner. |
heer | noun (n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle. |
noun (n.) Hair. |
indianeer | noun (n.) An Indiaman. |
jeer | noun (n.) A gear; a tackle. |
noun (n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship. | |
noun (n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. | |
verb (v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at. |
killdeer | noun (n.) A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera). |
lavoltateer | noun (n.) A dancer of the lavolta. |
leer | noun (n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed. |
noun (n.) The cheek. | |
noun (n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance. | |
noun (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion. | |
adjective (a.) Empty; destitute; wanting | |
adjective (a.) Empty of contents. | |
adjective (a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse. | |
adjective (a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words. | |
verb (v. t.) To learn. | |
verb (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look. | |
verb (v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin. |
lombardeer | noun (n.) A pawnbroker. |
meer | noun (n.) See Mere, a lake. |
noun (n.) A boundary. See Mere. | |
adjective (a.) Simple; unmixed. See Mere, a. |
mountaineer | noun (n.) An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains. |
noun (n.) A rude, fierce person. | |
verb (v. i.) To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains. |
muffineer | noun (n.) A dish for keeping muffins hot. |
muleteer | noun (n.) One who drives mules. |
musketeer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a musket. |
mutineer | noun (n.) One guilty of mutiny. |
mynheer | noun (n.) The Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman. |
overseer | noun (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways. |
queer | noun (n.) Counterfeit money. |
noun (n.) Counterfeit money. | |
adjective (a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. | |
adjective (a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction. | |
adjective (a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. | |
adjective (a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction. | |
adjective (a.) To puzzle. | |
adjective (a.) To ridicule; to banter; to rally. | |
adjective (a.) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil. |
pamphleteer | noun (n.) A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. |
verb (v. i.) To write or publish pamphlets. |
petardeer | noun (n.) Alt. of Petardier |
pheer | noun (n.) See 1st Fere. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PEER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pee) - Words That Begins with pee:
pee | noun (n.) See 1st Pea. |
noun (n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c). |
peece | noun (n. & v.) See Piece. |
peechi | noun (n.) The dauw. |
peekaboo | noun (n.) A child's game; bopeep. |
peel | noun (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. |
noun (n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar. | |
noun (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. | |
verb (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob. | |
verb (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. | |
verb (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily. |
peeling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peel |
peele | noun (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc. |
peeler | noun (n.) One who peels or strips. |
noun (n.) A pillager. | |
noun (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. |
peelhouse | noun (n.) See 1st Peel. |
peen | noun (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation. |
noun (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge. |
peeping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peep |
peep | noun (n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp. |
noun (n.) First outlook or appearance. | |
noun (n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment. | |
noun (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla). | |
noun (n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). | |
verb (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep. | |
verb (v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance. | |
verb (v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry. |
peeper | noun (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird. |
noun (n.) One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. | |
noun (n.) The eye; as, to close the peepers. |
peephole | noun (n.) A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered. |
peevish | adjective (a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. |
adjective (a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer. | |
adjective (a.) Silly; childish; trifling. |
peevishness | noun (n.) The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. |
peevit | noun (n.) Alt. of Peewit |
peewit | noun (n.) See Pewit. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PEER:
English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 'r':
pigpecker | noun (n.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps. |
pabular | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food. |
pacer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces. |
pachometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter. |
pachymeter | noun (n.) Same as Pachometer. |
pacificator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker. |
pacfier | noun (n.) One who pacifies. |
packer | noun (n.) A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer. |
noun (n.) A ring of packing or a special device to render gas-tight and water-tight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. |
padar | noun (n.) Groats; coarse flour or meal. |
padder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pads. |
noun (n.) A highwayman; a footpad. | |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, paddles. |
painstaker | noun (n.) One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. |
painter | noun (n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. |
noun (n.) The panther, or puma. | |
noun (n.) One whose occupation is to paint | |
noun (n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. | |
noun (n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like. |
pair | noun (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.] |
noun (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes. | |
noun (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen. | |
noun (n.) A married couple; a man and wife. | |
noun (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows. | |
noun (n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. | |
noun (n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion. | |
verb (v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding. | |
verb (v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. | |
verb (v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another. | |
verb (v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. | |
verb (v. t.) To impair. | |
() A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current. |
pairer | noun (n.) One who impairs. |
palaeographer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palaeographic |
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. |
palaverer | noun (n.) One who palavers; a flatterer. |
paleographer | noun (n.) One skilled in paleography; a paleographist. |
palissander | noun (n.) Violet wood. |
noun (n.) Rosewood. |
pallbearer | noun (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. |
pallor | adjective (a.) Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. |
palmar | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds. |
palmer | noun (n.) A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. |
noun (n.) A palmerworm. | |
noun (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle. | |
noun (n.) A palmerworm. | |
noun (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle. | |
verb (v. t.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. |
palmister | noun (n.) One who practices palmistry |
palpator | noun (n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi. |
palpifer | noun (n.) Same as Palpiger. |
palpiger | noun (n.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects. |
palster | noun (n.) A pilgrim's staff. |
palterer | noun (n.) One who palters. |
pamperer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pampers. |
pandar | noun (n.) Same as Pander. |
pander | noun (n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. |
noun (n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. | |
verb (v. t.) To play the pander for. | |
verb (v. i.) To act the part of a pander. |
pandoor | noun (n.) Same as Pandour. |
pandour | noun (n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. |
panier | noun (n.) See Pannier, 3. |
pannier | noun (n.) A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass |
noun (n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles. | |
noun (n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London. | |
noun (n.) A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle. |
panter | noun (n.) One who pants. |
noun (n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. | |
noun (n.) A net; a noose. |
panther | noun (n.) A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoologists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body. |
noun (n.) In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar. |
pantler | noun (n.) The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry. |
pantochronometer | noun (n.) An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. |
pantometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc. |
papaver | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the poppy. |
paper | noun (n.) A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried. |
noun (n.) A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance. | |
noun (n.) A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. | |
noun (n.) A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper. | |
noun (n.) Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper. | |
noun (n.) Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below. | |
noun (n.) A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc. | |
noun (n.) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house. | |
verb (v. t.) To fold or inclose in paper. | |
verb (v. t.) To put on paper; to make a memorandum of. | |
() Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum. |
papillar | adjective (a.) Same as Papillose. |
papular | adjective (a.) Covered with papules. |
adjective (a.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption. |
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. |
paradoxer | noun (n.) Alt. of Paradoxist |
paragrapher | noun (n.) A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist. |
parameter | noun (n.) A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family. |
noun (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate. | |
noun (n.) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species. |
paramiographer | noun (n.) A collector or writer of proverbs. |
paramour | noun (n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman. |
noun (n.) Love; gallantry. | |
adverb (adv.) Alt. of Paramours |
paraphraser | noun (n.) One who paraphrases. |
parcener | noun (n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate. |
pardoner | noun (n.) One who pardons. |
noun (n.) A seller of indulgences. |
pargeter | noun (n.) A plasterer. |
parishioner | noun (n.) One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish. |
paritor | noun (n.) An apparitor. |
parker | noun (n.) The keeper of a park. |
parlor | noun (n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. |
noun (n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. | |
noun (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. | |
noun (n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained. |
parr | noun (n.) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling. |
noun (n.) A young leveret. |
parroter | noun (n.) One who simply repeats what he has heard. |
parser | noun (n.) One who parses. |
partaker | noun (n.) One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. |
noun (n.) An accomplice; an associate; a partner. |
parter | noun (n.) One who, or which, parts or separates. |
participator | noun (n.) One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker. |
particular | noun (n.) A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story. |
noun (n.) Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises. | |
adjective (a.) Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. | |
adjective (a.) Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party. | |
adjective (a.) Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress. | |
adjective (a.) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder. | |
adjective (a.) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant. | |
adjective (a.) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise. |
partner | noun (n.) One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business. |
noun (n.) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. | |
noun (n.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like. | |
verb (v. t.) To associate, to join. |
pasquiler | noun (n.) A lampooner. |
passager | noun (n.) A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. |
passenger | noun (n.) A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. |
noun (n.) A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. |
passer | noun (n.) One who passes; a passenger. |
passover | noun (n.) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. |
noun (n.) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb. |
paster | noun (n.) One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department. |
noun (n.) A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot. |
pastor | noun (n.) A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds. |
noun (n.) A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish. | |
noun (n.) A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts. |
pasturer | noun (n.) One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister. |
patamar | noun (n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. |
patcher | noun (n.) One who patches or botches. |
patellar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan. |
paternoster | noun (n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version. |
noun (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings. | |
noun (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers. | |
noun (n.) An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top. |
pathfinder | noun (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. |
pathmaker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes a way or path. |
patronizer | noun (n.) One who patronizes. |
pattemar | noun (n.) See Patamar. |
patter | noun (n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet. |
noun (n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue. | |
noun (n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter. | |
noun (n.) The language or oratory of a street peddler, conjurer, or the like, hence, glib talk; a voluble harangue; mere talk; chatter; also, specif., rapid speech, esp. as sometimes introduced in songs. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. | |
verb (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. | |
verb (v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. | |
verb (v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle. | |
verb (v. i.) To mutter; as prayers. |
patterer | noun (n.) One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler. |
pauper | noun (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor. |
pauser | noun (n.) One who pauses. |
paver | noun (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement. |
pavier | noun (n.) A paver. |
pavior | noun (n.) One who paves; a paver. |
noun (n.) A rammer for driving paving stones. | |
noun (n.) A brick or slab used for paving. |
pavisor | noun (n.) A soldier who carried a pavise. |
pawnbroker | noun (n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. |
pawner | noun (n.) Alt. of Pawnor |
pawnor | noun (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt. |
payer | noun (n.) One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. |
paymaster | noun (n.) One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same. |
payor | noun (n.) See Payer. |
peacebreaker | noun (n.) One who disturbs the public peace. |
peacemaker | noun (n.) One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. |
peacher | noun (n.) One who peaches. |