Name Report For First Name PER:
PER
First name PER's origin is German. PER means "a rock. form of peter". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of per.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with PER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PER - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PER
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PER AS A WHOLE:
japera hesper hesperia hypermnestra persis speranza peredur peredurus perth jasper perry jesper percy hesperos hyperion perdix persius pereteanu perfecta perke persephone perzsi pipere casper cooper coopersmith cupere harper hearpere kasper pepperell perceval percival percyvelle peredwus peregrine perekin pericles perkin perkinson pernel pernell perren perrin perris perryn pert perye piperel prospero rapere skippere spere tripper tuppere willaperht wilpert perseus rupert pepper tupper skipper roper perkins coopersmi perzsike persephonie piper perahta esperanza tipperNAMES RHYMING WITH PER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:
clover gauthier iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker xabier usk-water fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer brewster bridger camber denver gardner miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler witter symer dexter ogier oliver fearcher keller lawler rainer rutger auster christopher homer kester lysander meleager philander teucer helmer aleksander abeer 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 akker aler alexander alexavier alister allister almer asherNAMES RHYMING WITH PER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pe) - Names That Begins with pe:
peace peada peadar pearce pearroc pearson pedar pedra pedrine pedro peer 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 peppi peppin pesach pesha pessach peta peta-gaye pete peter peterka peterke peterson petiri petr petra petre petrica petrina petrine petron petronela petronilla petronille petrov petru petrus petunia peverell peytonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PER:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'r':
palmer papandr parr pilar polymestor porter porteur portier prior priour pryorEnglish Words Rhyming PER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PER AS A WHOLE:
| ampere | noun (n.) Alt. of Ampere |
| noun (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere. |
| amperemeter | noun (n.) Alt. of Amperometer |
| amperometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes. |
| ampersand | noun (n.) A word used to describe the character /, /, or &. |
| angiomonospermous | adjective (a.) Producing one seed only in a seed pod. |
| angiosperm | noun (n.) A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp. |
| angiospermatous | adjective (a.) Same as Angiospermous. |
| angiospermous | adjective (a.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp. |
| antiperiodic | noun (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers. |
| antiperistaltic | adjective (a.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube. |
| antiperistasis | noun (n.) Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality. |
| antiperistatic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiperistasis. |
| aper | noun (n.) One who apes. |
| aperea | noun (n.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea). |
| aperient | noun (n.) An aperient medicine or food. |
| adjective (a.) Gently opening the bowels; laxative. |
| aperitive | adjective (a.) Serving to open; aperient. |
| apert | adjective (a.) Open; evident; undisguised. |
| adverb (adv.) Openly. |
| apertion | noun (n.) The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. |
| apertness | noun (n.) Openness; frankness. |
| aperture | noun (n.) The act of opening. |
| noun (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. | |
| noun (n.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. |
| apery | noun (n.) A place where apes are kept. |
| noun (n.) The practice of aping; an apish action. |
| apperception | noun (n.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. |
| apperil | noun (n.) Peril. |
| appertaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appertain |
| appertainment | noun (n.) That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance. |
| appertinance | noun (n.) Alt. of Appertinence |
| appertinence | noun (n.) See Appurtenance. |
| appertinent | noun (n.) That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging; appertaining. |
| asper | noun (n.) The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r. |
| noun (n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster. | |
| adjective (a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. |
| asperating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Asperate |
| asperation | noun (n.) The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. |
| asperges | noun (n.) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water. |
| noun (n.) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. |
| aspergill | noun (n.) Alt. of Aspergillum |
| aspergillum | noun (n.) The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. |
| noun (n.) See Wateringpot shell. |
| aspergilliform | adjective (a.) Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. |
| asperifoliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Asperifolious |
| asperifolious | adjective (a.) Having rough leaves. |
| asperity | noun (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. |
| noun (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity. | |
| noun (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness. | |
| noun (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. | |
| noun (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. |
| aspermatous | adjective (a.) Aspermous. |
| aspermous | adjective (a.) Destitute of seeds; aspermatous. |
| asperous | adjective (a.) Rough; uneven. |
| aspersing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Asperse |
| aspersed | adjective (a.) Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. |
| adjective (a.) Bespattered; slandered; calumniated. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Asperse |
| asperser | noun (n.) One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another. |
| aspersion | noun (n.) A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. |
| noun (n.) The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. |
| aspersive | adjective (a.) Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. |
| aspersoir | noun (n.) An aspergill. |
| aspersorium | noun (n.) The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches. |
| noun (n.) A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. |
| attempering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attemper |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (er) - English Words That Ends with er:
| abaiser | noun (n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal. |
| abandoner | noun (n.) One who abandons. |
| abaser | noun (n.) He who, or that which, abases. |
| abater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abates. |
| abetter | noun (n.) Alt. of Abettor |
| abhorrer | noun (n.) One who abhors. |
| abider | noun (n.) One who abides, or continues. |
| noun (n.) One who dwells; a resident. |
| abjurer | noun (n.) One who abjures. |
| abler | adjective (a.) comp. of Able. |
| superlative (a.) superl. of Able. |
| abolisher | noun (n.) One who abolishes. |
| abridger | noun (n.) One who abridges. |
| absconder | noun (n.) One who absconds. |
| absenter | noun (n.) One who absents one's self. |
| absolver | noun (n.) One who absolves. |
| absorber | noun (n.) One who, or that which, absorbs. |
| abstainer | noun (n.) One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors. |
| abstracter | noun (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract. |
| abuser | noun (n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb]. |
| abutter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river. |
| acater | noun (n.) See Caterer. |
| acceder | noun (n.) One who accedes. |
| accelerometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. |
| accepter | noun (n.) A person who accepts; a taker. |
| noun (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality. | |
| noun (n.) An acceptor. |
| accipenser | noun (n.) See Acipenser. |
| accipiter | noun (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores. |
| noun (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. |
| acclaimer | noun (n.) One who acclaims. |
| accompanier | noun (n.) He who, or that which, accompanies. |
| accomplisher | noun (n.) One who accomplishes. |
| accorder | noun (n.) One who accords, assents, or concedes. |
| accruer | noun (n.) The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer. |
| accuser | noun (n.) One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault. |
| acetifier | noun (n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification. |
| acetimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid. |
| acetometer | noun (n.) Same as Acetimeter. |
| achiever | noun (n.) One who achieves; a winner. |
| acidifier | noun (n.) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc. |
| acidimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. |
| acipenser | noun (n.) A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon. |
| acknowledger | noun (n.) One who acknowledges. |
| acoumeter | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. |
| acquirer | noun (n.) A person who acquires. |
| acquitter | noun (n.) One who acquits or releases. |
| acroter | noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. |
| actinometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays. |
| noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light. |
| adapter | noun (n.) One who adapts. |
| noun (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter. |
| adder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers. |
| noun (n.) A serpent. | |
| noun (n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho. | |
| noun (n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Sea Adder. |
| adducer | noun (n.) One who adduces. |
| adelaster | noun (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus. |
| adherer | noun (n.) One who adheres; an adherent. |
| adjudger | noun (n.) One who adjudges. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (pe) - Words That Begins with pe:
| pea | noun (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard. |
| noun (n.) See Peak, n., 3. | |
| noun (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. | |
| noun (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. |
| peabird | noun (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note. |
| peaceable | adjective (a.) Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome. |
| peacebreaker | noun (n.) One who disturbs the public peace. |
| peaceful | adjective (a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end. |
| adjective (a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words. |
| peaceless | adjective (a.) Without peace; disturbed. |
| peacemaker | noun (n.) One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. |
| peach | noun (n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. |
| verb (v. t.) To accuse of crime; to inform against. | |
| verb (v. i.) To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. |
| peacher | noun (n.) One who peaches. |
| peachick | noun (n.) The chicken of the peacock. |
| peachy | adjective (a.) Resembling a peach or peaches. |
| peacock | noun (n.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. |
| noun (n.) In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. |
| peafowl | noun (n.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo. |
| peage | noun (n.) See Paage. |
| peagrit | noun (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite. |
| peahen | noun (n.) The hen or female peafowl. |
| peak | noun (n.) A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. |
| noun (n.) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. | |
| noun (n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. | |
| noun (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. | |
| verb (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pry; to peep slyly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular. |
| peaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peak |
| adjective (a.) Mean; sneaking. | |
| adjective (a.) Pining; sickly; peakish. |
| peaked | adjective (a.) Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof. |
| adjective (a.) Sickly; not robust. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Peak |
| peakish | adjective (a.) Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region. |
| adjective (a.) Having peaks; peaked. | |
| adjective (a.) Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly. |
| peaky | adjective (a.) Having a peak or peaks. |
| adjective (a.) Sickly; peaked. |
| peal | noun (n.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. |
| noun (n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells. | |
| verb (v. i.) To appeal. | |
| verb (v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds. | |
| verb (v. i.) To resound; to echo. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pour out. |
| pealing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peal |
| pean | noun (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or. |
| noun (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean. |
| peanism | noun (n.) The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph. |
| peanut | noun (n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit. |
| pear | noun (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. |
| pearch | noun (n.) See Perch. |
| pearl | noun (n.) A fringe or border. |
| noun (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious. | |
| noun (n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl. | |
| noun (n.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill. | |
| noun (n.) A light-colored tern. | |
| noun (n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler. | |
| noun (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye. | |
| noun (n.) A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether. | |
| noun (n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl. | |
| verb (v. t. ) To fringe; to border. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley. | |
| verb (v. i.) To resemble pearl or pearls. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling. |
| pearlaceous | adjective (a.) Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance. |
| pearlash | noun (n.) A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc. |
| pearlfish | noun (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait. |
| pearlins | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Pearlings |
| pearlings | noun (n. pl.) A kind of lace of silk or thread. |
| pearlite | noun (n.) Alt. of Pearlstone |
| pearlstone | noun (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic. |
| pearlwort | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family. |
| pearly | adjective (a.) Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood. |
| pearmain | noun (n.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain. |
| peart | adjective (a.) Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. |
| peasant | noun (n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. |
| adjective (a.) Rustic, rural. |
| peasantlike | adjective (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate. |
| peasantly | adjective (a.) Peasantlike. |
| peasantry | noun (n.) Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. |
| noun (n.) Rusticity; coarseness. |
| peascod | noun (n.) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea. |
| pease | noun (n.) A pea. |
| noun (n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea. | |
| (pl. ) of Pea |
| peastone | noun (n.) Pisolite. |
| peasweep | noun (n.) The pewit, or lapwing. |
| noun (n.) The greenfinch. |
| peat | noun (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. |
| noun (n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. |
| peaty | adjective (a.) Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PER:
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. |
| pamphleteer | noun (n.) A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. |
| verb (v. i.) To write or publish pamphlets. |
| 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. |
| pecker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker. |
| noun (n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick. |
| peculator | noun (n.) One who peculates. |
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