First Names Rhyming PEREGRINE
English Words Rhyming PEREGRINE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PEREGRİNE AS A WHOLE:
| peregrine | noun (n.) The peregrine falcon. |
| | adjective (a.) Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PEREGRİNE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (eregrine) - English Words That Ends with eregrine:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (regrine) - English Words That Ends with regrine:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (egrine) - English Words That Ends with egrine:
| pelegrine | adjective (a.) See Peregrine. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (grine) - English Words That Ends with grine:
| hygrine | noun (n.) An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor. |
| meleagrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris. |
| nigrine | noun (n.) A ferruginous variety of rutile. |
| tanagrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the tanagers. |
| tigrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rine) - English Words That Ends with rine:
| acarine | adjective (a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases. |
| accipitrine | adjective (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. |
| adulterine | noun (n.) An illegitimate child. |
| | adjective (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. |
| alabastrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs. |
| alexandrine | noun (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. |
| algerine | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria. |
| alpestrine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the timbe/ line; subalpine. |
| amarine | noun (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds. |
| anserine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Anseres. |
| antifebrine | noun (n.) Acetanilide. |
| antipyrine | noun (n.) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever. |
| aquamarine | noun (n.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl. |
| atherine | noun (n.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides. |
| austrine | noun (n.) Southern; southerly; austral. |
| aventurine | noun (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. |
| azurine | noun (n.) The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color. |
| | adjective (a.) Azure. |
| bebeerine | noun (n.) Alt. of Bebirine |
| bebirine | noun (n.) An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. |
| berberine | noun (n.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants. |
| bibirine | noun (n.) See Bebeerine. |
| biforine | noun (n.) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged. |
| brine | noun (n.) Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters. |
| | noun (n.) The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. |
| | noun (n.) Tears; -- so called from their saltness. |
| | verb (v. t.) To steep or saturate in brine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay. |
| butterine | noun (n.) A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. |
| banjorine | noun (n.) A kind of banjo, with a short neck, tuned a fourth higher than the common banjo; -- popularly so called. |
| calabarine | noun (n.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. |
| calcarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain. |
| cancrine | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike. |
| caprine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols. |
| cedrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree. |
| chelerythrine | noun (n.) An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine. |
| chlorine | noun (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. |
| cholerine | noun (n.) The precursory symptoms of cholera. |
| | noun (n.) The first stage of epidemic cholera. |
| | noun (n.) A mild form of cholera. |
| cinnabarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand. |
| citrine | noun (n.) A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. |
| colubrine | adjective (a.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty. |
| conhydrine | noun (n.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine. |
| conyrine | noun (n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine. |
| curarine | noun (n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts. |
| cyprine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the cypress. |
| | adjective (a.) Cyprinoid. |
| dasyurine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures. |
| daturine | noun (n.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina. |
| doctrine | noun (n.) Teaching; instruction. |
| | noun (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. |
| electrine | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or made of, amber. |
| | adjective (a.) Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients. |
| erythrine | noun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid. |
| | noun (n.) See Erythrite, 2. |
| escharine | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae. |
| eserine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil. |
| estuarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an estuary; estuary. |
| esurine | noun (n.) A medicine which provokes appetites, or causes hunger. |
| | adjective (a.) Causing hunger; eating; corroding. |
| ethmovomerine | noun (n.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. |
| euchlorine | noun (n.) A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ine) - English Words That Ends with ine:
| abietine | noun (n.) A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. |
| acacine | noun (n.) Gum arabic. |
| acalycine | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous |
| acanthine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus. |
| acauline | adjective (a.) Same as Acaulescent. |
| acervuline | adjective (a.) Resembling little heaps. |
| acolyctine | noun (n.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. |
| aconitine | noun (n.) An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite. |
| adamantine | adjective (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. |
| | adjective (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster. |
| agatine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate. |
| alanine | noun (n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia. |
| aldine | adjective (a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works. |
| alkaline | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. |
| almandine | noun (n.) The common red variety of garnet. |
| almondine | noun (n.) See Almandine |
| alphonsine | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284). |
| alpine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants. |
| | adjective (a.) Like the Alps; lofty. |
| altheine | noun (n.) Asparagine. |
| alumine | noun (n.) Alumina. |
| alvine | adjective (a.) Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions. |
| amandine | noun (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc. |
| amanitine | noun (n.) The poisonous principle of some fungi. |
| amaranthine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to amaranth. |
| | adjective (a.) Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a purplish color. |
| amethystine | adjective (a.) Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet. |
| | adjective (a.) Composed of, or containing, amethyst. |
| amine | noun (n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical. |
| amygdaline | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds. |
| anatine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike. |
| andesine | noun (n.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes. |
| andine | adjective (a.) Andean; as, Andine flora. |
| angevine | noun (n.) A native of Anjou. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Anjou in France. |
| anguine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. |
| aniline | noun (n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made. |
| | adjective (a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline. |
| animalculine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. |
| annotine | noun (n.) A bird one year old, or that has once molted. |
| antalkaline | noun (n.) Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. |
| | adjective (a.) Of power to counteract alkalies. |
| antilopine | adjective (a.) Of or relating to the antelope. |
| antitoxine | noun (n.) A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria. |
| apennine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy. |
| apomorphine | noun (n.) A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic. |
| aquiline | adjective (a.) Belonging to or like an eagle. |
| | adjective (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose |
| ardassine | noun (n.) A very fine sort of Persian silk. |
| argentine | noun (n.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure. |
| | noun (n.) White metal coated with silver. |
| | noun (n.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina. |
| | noun (n.) A citizen of the Argentine Republic. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America. |
| aricine | noun (n.) An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark. |
| armozine | noun (n.) A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PEREGRİNE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (peregrin) - Words That Begins with peregrin:
| peregrinate | adjective (a.) Having traveled; foreign. |
| | verb (v. i.) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries. |
| peregrination | noun (n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. |
| peregrinator | noun (n.) One who peregrinates; one who travels about. |
| peregrinity | noun (n.) Foreignness; strangeness. |
| | noun (n.) Travel; wandering. |
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (peregri) - Words That Begins with peregri:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (peregr) - Words That Begins with peregr:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (pereg) - Words That Begins with pereg:
| peregal | adjective (a.) Fully equal. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (pere) - Words That Begins with pere:
| pere | noun (n.) A peer. |
| | noun (n.) Father; -- often used after French proper names to distinguish a father from his son; as, Dumas pere. |
| peremption | noun (n.) A quashing; a defeating. |
| peremptoriness | noun (n.) The quality of being peremptory; positiveness. |
| peremptory | adjective (a.) Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. |
| | adjective (a.) Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. |
| | adjective (a.) Firmly determined; unawed. |
| perennial | noun (n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not. |
| | adjective (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains. |
| | adjective (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing. |
| | adjective (a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant. |
| perennibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus. |
| perennibranchiate | adjective (a.) Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Perennibranchiata. |
| perennity | noun (n.) The quality of being perennial. |
| pererration | noun (n.) A wandering, or rambling, through various places. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (per) - Words That Begins with per:
| peracute | adjective (a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. |
| peradventure | noun (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure. |
| | adverb (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. |
| peraeopod | noun (n.) One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of Crustacea. |
| peragration | noun (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution. |
| perambulating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perambulate |
| perambulation | noun (n.) The act of perambulating; traversing. |
| | noun (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. |
| perambulator | noun (n.) One who perambulates. |
| | noun (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer. |
| | noun (n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing. |
| perameles | noun (n.) Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot. |
| perbend | noun (n.) See Perpender. |
| perbreak | noun (n.) See Parbreak. |
| perbromate | noun (n.) A salt of perbromic acid. |
| perbromic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine. |
| perbromide | noun (n.) A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series. |
| perca | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch. |
| percale | noun (n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear. |
| percaline | noun (n.) A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color. |
| | noun (n.) A fine kind of cotton goods, usually of one color, and with a glossy surface, -- much use for linings. |
| percarbide | noun (n.) A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon. |
| percarburet | noun (n.) A percarbide. |
| percarbureted | adjective (a.) Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon. |
| perceivable | adjective (a.) Capable of being perceived; perceptible. |
| perceivance | noun (n.) Power of perceiving. |
| perceiving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perceive |
| perceiver | noun (n.) One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb). |
| percely | noun (n.) Parsley. |
| percentage | noun (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. |
| percept | noun (n.) That which is perceived. |
| perceptibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color. |
| | noun (n.) Perception. |
| perceptible | adjective (a.) Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable. |
| perception | noun (n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition. |
| | noun (n.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. |
| | noun (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. |
| | noun (n.) An idea; a notion. |
| perceptive | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception. |
| perceptivity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception. |
| percesoces | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes. |
| perch | noun (n.) Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches. |
| | noun (n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat. |
| | noun (n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole. |
| | noun (n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre. |
| | noun (n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework. |
| | noun (n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach. |
| | verb (v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch. |
| | verb (v. t.) To occupy as a perch. |
| perching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perch |
| perchant | noun (n.) A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering. |
| percheron | noun (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman. |
| perchlorate | noun (n.) A salt of perchloric acid. |
| perchloric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric. |
| perchloride | noun (n.) A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series. |
| perchromic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide. |
| perciform | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Perciformes. |
| perciformes | noun (n. pl.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families. |
| percipience | noun (n.) Alt. of Percipiency |
| percipiency | noun (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. |
| percipient | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is percipient. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. |
| perclose | noun (n.) Same as Parclose. |
| | noun (n.) Conclusion; end. |
| percoid | noun (n.) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae. |
| percoidea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Perciformes. |
| percolating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Percolate |
| percolation | noun (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PEREGRİNE:
English Words which starts with 'pere' and ends with 'rine':
English Words which starts with 'per' and ends with 'ine':
| perdicine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges. |
| periuterine | adjective (a.) Surrounding the uterus. |
| perivitelline | adjective (a.) Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum. |
English Words which starts with 'pe' and ends with 'ne':
| 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. |
| peastone | noun (n.) Pisolite. |
| pebrine | noun (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood. |
| pedimane | noun (n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum. |
| pelerine | noun (n.) A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind. |
| penduline | noun (n.) A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers. |
| pentadecane | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule. |
| pentamethylene | noun (n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene. |
| pentane | noun (n.) Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule. |
| pentene | noun (n.) Same as Amylene. |
| pentine | noun (n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as Valerylene. |
| pentone | noun (n.) Same as Valylene. |
| peperine | noun (n.) Alt. of Peperino |
| peptone | noun (n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids. |
| | noun (n.) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose. |
| peptotoxine | noun (n.) A toxic alkaloid found occasionally associated with the peptones formed from fibrin by pepsinhydrochloric acid. |
| perigone | noun (n.) Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth. |
| | noun (n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower. |
| | noun (n.) A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid. |
| pesane | noun (n.) See Pusane. |
| petaline | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal. |
| petrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles. |
| petroline | noun (n.) A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin. |
| petrostearine | noun (n.) A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made. |
| persienne | noun (n.) Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character. |
