PEACE
First name PEACE's origin is Other. PEACE means "peaceful". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PEACE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of peace.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with PEACE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming PEACE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PEACE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH PEACE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (eace) - Names That Ends with eace:
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ace) - Names That Ends with ace:
canace eustace candace grace kandace shace ace cace chace gace jace mace trace wallace boniface ignace lace daceRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - Names That Ends with ce:
fenice alarice candance circe dice dirce eunice eurydice glauce helice kalonice yohance benoyce prentice lance anstice maurice aleece aleyece alice allyce alyce ance anice annice aviance berenice bernice bernyce brandice brandyce caidance candice candyce caprice catrice caydence cherice clarice clemence danice darice delice denice deniece derorice dulce ellice ellyce elyce essence felice florence france galice ganice gurice jahnisce janice janiece jayce jeanice jenice jeniece jeyce joyce kadence kadience kaedence kaidance kandice kandyce kaprice katrice kayce kaydance kaydence kaydience lanice loyce lucrece morganceNAMES RHYMING WITH PEACE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (peac) - Names That Begins with peac:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pea) - Names That Begins with pea:
peada peadar pearce pearroc pearsonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pe) - Names That Begins with pe:
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 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 PEACE:
First Names which starts with 'pe' and ends with 'ce':
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'e':
page paige paine paislee palmere parke parle parthenie pascale pascaline pasiphae pasquale patience patrice pauline payne pazice perye perzsike peta-gaye pete peterke petre petrine petronille phebe phemie philipe philippe philippine phillipe phoebe pierce pierette pierre pierrette pike pimne pipere pivane plaise pleasure podarge pommelraie pommeraie ponce porsche prince procne promyse pruie prunellie psyche ptaysanwee pyrene pyrenieEnglish Words Rhyming PEACE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PEACE AS A WHOLE:
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. |
unpeace | noun (n.) Absence or lack of peace. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PEACE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (eace) - English Words That Ends with eace:
preace | noun (v. & n.) Press. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ace) - English Words That Ends with ace:
ace | noun (n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds. |
noun (n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. | |
noun (n.) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.; in tennis, frequently, a point won by a service stroke. |
aggrace | noun (n.) Grace; favor. |
verb (v. t.) To favor; to grace. |
agrace | noun (n. & v.) See Aggrace. |
anelace | noun (n.) Same as Anlace. |
anlace | noun (n.) A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. |
bace | noun (n., a., & v.) See Base. |
birthplace | noun (n.) The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. |
bombace | noun (n.) Cotton; padding. |
bongrace | noun (n.) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. |
boniface | noun (n.) An innkeeper. |
bowgrace | noun (n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice. |
brace | noun (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. |
noun (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. | |
noun (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension. | |
noun (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell. | |
noun (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves. | |
noun (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. | |
noun (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. | |
noun (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. | |
noun (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. | |
noun (n.) Harness; warlike preparation. | |
noun (n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace. | |
noun (n.) The mouth of a shaft. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. | |
verb (v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. | |
verb (v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards. | |
verb (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up. |
brazenface | noun (n.) An impudent or shameless person. |
bullace | noun (n.) A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum. |
noun (n.) The bully tree. |
carapace | noun (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals. |
chace | noun (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3. |
verb (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t. |
commonplace | noun (n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. |
noun (n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. | |
adjective (a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. | |
verb (v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. | |
verb (v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. |
corporace | noun (n.) See Corporas. |
dace | noun (n.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare. |
disgrace | noun (n.) The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. |
noun (n.) The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. | |
noun (n.) That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being. | |
noun (n.) An act of unkindness; a disfavor. | |
noun (n.) To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. | |
noun (n.) To do disfavor to; to bring reproach or shame upon; to dishonor; to treat or cover with ignominy; to lower in estimation. | |
noun (n.) To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. |
doughface | noun (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. |
embrace | noun (n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. |
noun (n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love. | |
noun (n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome. | |
noun (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. | |
noun (n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. | |
noun (n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to. | |
noun (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court. | |
noun (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor. | |
verb (v. i.) To join in an embrace. |
espace | noun (n.) Space. |
emplace | noun (v. & n.) To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement. |
face | noun (n.) The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. |
noun (n.) That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces. | |
noun (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object. | |
noun (n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line. | |
noun (n.) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face. | |
noun (n.) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc. | |
noun (n.) The style or cut of a type or font of type. | |
noun (n.) Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired. | |
noun (n.) That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance. | |
noun (n.) Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. | |
noun (n.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. | |
noun (n.) Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. | |
noun (n.) Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of. | |
noun (n.) Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. | |
noun (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done. | |
noun (n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. | |
verb (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle. | |
verb (v. t.) To Confront impudently; to bully. | |
verb (v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble. | |
verb (v. t.) To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. | |
verb (v. i.) To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left. | |
verb (v. i.) To present a face or front. |
fireplace | noun (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built. |
footpace | noun (n.) A walking pace or step. |
noun (n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. |
forebrace | noun (n.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail. |
fricace | noun (n.) Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. |
noun (n.) An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent. |
furnace | noun (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. |
noun (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. | |
noun (n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. |
grace | noun (n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. |
noun (n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. | |
noun (n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. | |
noun (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. | |
noun (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. | |
noun (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. | |
noun (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. | |
noun (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. | |
noun (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. | |
noun (n.) Thanks. | |
noun (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. | |
noun (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. | |
noun (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. | |
noun (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. | |
verb (v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. | |
verb (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. | |
verb (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace. | |
verb (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. |
grimace | noun (n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. |
verb (v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. |
glace | adjective (a.) Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc. |
halfpace | noun (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace. |
halpace | noun (n.) See Haut pas. |
headrace | noun (n.) See Race, a water course. |
hyperspace | noun (n.) An imagined space having more than three dimensions. |
interspace | noun (n.) Intervening space. |
joyace | noun (n.) Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness. |
lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | |
noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. | |
noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. | |
verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. | |
verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). | |
verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. | |
verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
mace | noun (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains. |
noun (n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg. | |
noun (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. | |
noun (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority. | |
noun (n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority. | |
noun (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple. | |
noun (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand. |
manace | noun (n. & v.) Same as Menace. |
menace | noun (n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. |
noun (n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. | |
noun (n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. | |
verb (v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. |
necklace | noun (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament. |
noun (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays. |
quarterpace | noun (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace. |
noun (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace. |
pace | noun (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. |
noun (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces. | |
noun (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. | |
noun (n.) A slow gait; a footpace. | |
noun (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. | |
noun (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure. | |
noun (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall. | |
noun (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. | |
verb (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. | |
verb (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on. | |
verb (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. | |
verb (v. i.) To pass away; to die. | |
verb (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. | |
verb (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. | |
verb (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in. |
palace | noun (n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. |
noun (n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. | |
noun (n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. |
paleface | noun (n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. |
pinnace | noun (n.) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne. |
noun (n.) A man-of-war's boat. | |
noun (n.) A procuress; a pimp. |
place | noun (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. |
noun (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. | |
noun (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. | |
noun (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. | |
noun (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). | |
noun (n.) A definite position or passage of a document. | |
noun (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. | |
noun (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. | |
noun (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. | |
noun (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. | |
noun (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. | |
noun (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. | |
noun (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. | |
noun (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. | |
noun (n.) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. | |
verb (v. t.) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. | |
verb (v. t.) To place-kick ( a goal). |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PEACE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (peac) - Words That Begins with peac:
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. |
peachblow | adjective (a.) Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pea) - Words That Begins with pea:
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. |
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. |
peag | noun (n.) A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. |
peavey | noun (n.) Alt. of Peavy |
peavy | noun (n.) A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PEACE:
English Words which starts with 'pe' and ends with 'ce':
peece | noun (n. & v.) See Piece. |
penance | noun (n.) Repentance. |
noun (n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering. | |
noun (n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose penance; to punish. |
pence | noun (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny. |
(pl. ) of Penny |
pendence | noun (n.) Slope; inclination. |
pendice | noun (n.) A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse. |
penetrance | noun (n.) Alt. of Penetrancy |
penitence | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. |
pentice | noun (n.) A penthouse. |
perceivance | noun (n.) Power of perceiving. |
percipience | noun (n.) Alt. of Percipiency |
perdurance | noun (n.) Alt. of Perduration |
performance | noun (n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. |
noun (n.) That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. |
permanence | noun (n.) Alt. of Permanency |
permittance | noun (n.) The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. |
perpetuance | noun (n.) Perpetuity. |
perseverance | noun (n.) The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. |
noun (n.) Discrimination. | |
noun (n.) Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. |
persistence | noun (n.) Alt. of Persistency |
perspicience | noun (n.) The act of looking sharply. |
pertinence | noun (n.) Alt. of Pertinency |
perturbance | noun (n.) Disturbance; perturbation. |
pestilence | noun (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. |
noun (n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers. |
petrescence | noun (n.) The process of changing into stone; petrification. |
petulance | noun (n.) Alt. of Petulancy |
permeance | noun (n.) Permeation; |
noun (n.) the reciprocal of reluctance. |