PENN
First name PENN's origin is Other. PENN means "from the enclosure". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PENN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of penn.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with PENN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming PENN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PENN AS A WHOLE:
pennleah pennlea pennyNAMES RHYMING WITH PENN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (enn) - Names That Ends with enn:
gwenn benn brenn glenn kenn lennRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nn) - Names That Ends with nn:
caoilfhionn fynn cynn corann tuireann caolabhuinn ceannfhionn eachann labhruinn lachlann martainn mazonn addilynn adelynn aislinn aislynn alinn alynn angelynn annalynn aoibheann ashelynn ashlinn ashlynn avlynn bebhinn bethann brendalynn brilynn brooklynn brynn caitlinn caitlynn caoilfhinnn carolann carolynn carynn charlynn cherilynn chrysann crisann daelynn dalynn danylynn davynn deann deeann diahann doireann dyann edlynn elynn erynn evelynn fionn geralynn gracelynn gwendalynn gwynn inghinn jacklynn jadalynn jaecilynn jaelynn jaimelynn jaslynn jaylynn jazlynn jazmynn jenalynn jennyann jerilynn jeslynn joann jonalynn jordynn josalynn joshlynn joycelynn jozzlynn kadalynn kaelynn kaitlinn kaitlynn kalynn katelynn kathrynn katlynn kaylynn keriann kerri-ann kimberlynn krynn krystalynnNAMES RHYMING WITH PENN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pen) - Names That Begins with pen:
penarddun penda pendaran pendewe pendragon penelope peneus penina peninah penleigh penley penrith penrod pensee penthea penthesilea pentheus penthia pentonRhyming 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 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 persius pert perth peryeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PENN:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'n':
padarn paden padraigin paegastun paien paiton paityn palaemon palban pallatin pallaton pan panteleimon papan parkin parkinson parlan parthalan patamon paton patten pattin patton patwin paulson paxton paxtun payden payten payton peterson petron peyton pfeostun phaethon phalyn phaon phelan pheredin pherson philemon phlegethon pierson pin pippin pirmin platon poseidon poston prestin preston pridwyn princeton prydwyn pulan pution pygmalion pynEnglish Words Rhyming PENN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PENN AS A WHOLE:
apennine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy. |
averpenny | noun (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average. |
bipennate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bipennated |
bipennated | adjective (a.) Having two wings. |
bipennis | noun (n.) An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle. |
brevipennate | adjective (a.) Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu. |
catchpenny | noun (n.) Some worthless catchpenny thing. |
adjective (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. |
hap'penny | noun (n.) A half-penny. |
impenning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impen |
impennate | noun (n.) One of the Impennes. |
adjective (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. |
impennes | noun (n. pl.) An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight. |
impennous | adjective (a.) Having no wings, as some insects. |
lickpenny | noun (n.) A devourer or absorber of money. |
longipennate | adjective (a.) Having long wings, or quills. |
longipennes | noun (n. pl.) A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc. |
longipennine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate. |
openness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being open. |
quadripennate | adjective (a.) Having four wings; -- said of insects. |
adjective (a.) Having four wings; -- said of insects. |
penning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pen |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pen |
penna | noun (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather. |
pennaceous | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to a normal feather. |
pennach | noun (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume. |
pennached | adjective (a.) Variegated; striped. |
pennage | noun (n.) Feathery covering; plumage. |
pennant | noun (n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. |
noun (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked. |
pennate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pennated |
pennated | adjective (a.) Winged; plume-shaped. |
adjective (a.) Same as Pinnate. |
pennatula | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches. |
pennatulacea | noun (n. pl.) A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria. |
penned | adjective (a.) Winged; having plumes. |
adjective (a.) Written with a pen; composed. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Pen | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Pen |
penner | noun (n.) One who pens; a writer. |
noun (n.) A case for holding pens. |
penniform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a feather or plume. |
pennigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing feathers or quills. |
penniless | adjective (a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. |
penninerved | adjective (a.) Pinnately veined or nerved. |
pennipotent | adjective (a.) Strong of wing; strong on the wing. |
pennon | noun (n.) A wing; a pinion. |
noun (n.) A pennant; a flag or streamer. |
pennoncel | noun (n.) Alt. of Pennoncelle |
pennoncelle | noun (n.) See Pencel. |
penny | noun (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius). |
noun (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver. | |
noun (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny. | |
noun (n.) See Denarius. | |
adjective (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds. | |
adjective (a.) Worth or costing one penny. |
pennyroyal | noun (n.) An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. |
pennyweight | noun (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name. |
pennywort | noun (n.) A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. |
pennyworth | noun (n.) A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. |
noun (n.) Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. | |
noun (n.) A small quantity; a trifle. |
pickpenny | noun (n.) A miser; also, a sharper. |
pinchpenny | noun (n.) A miserly person. |
planipennate | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Planipennia. |
planipennia | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes. |
scrapepenny | noun (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PENN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (enn) - English Words That Ends with enn:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PENN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pen) - Words That Begins with pen:
pen | noun (n.) A feather. |
noun (n.) A wing. | |
noun (n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. | |
noun (n.) The internal shell of a squid. | |
noun (n.) A female swan. | |
noun (n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose. | |
noun (n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. | |
verb (v. t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. |
penal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence |
adjective (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. | |
adjective (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense. | |
adjective (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. |
penality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. |
penalty | noun (n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. |
noun (n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine. | |
noun (n.) A handicap. |
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. |
penanceless | adjective (a.) Free from penance. |
penannular | adjective (a.) Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring. |
penary | adjective (a.) Penal. |
penates | noun (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar. |
penaunt | noun (n.) A penitent. |
pence | noun (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny. |
(pl. ) of Penny |
pencel | noun (n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel. |
penchant | noun (n.) Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art. |
noun (n.) A game like bezique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together. |
penchute | noun (n.) See Penstock. |
pencil | noun (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. |
noun (n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite. | |
noun (n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc. | |
noun (n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. | |
noun (n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point. | |
noun (n.) A small medicated bougie. | |
verb (v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. |
penciling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pencil |
noun (n.) The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. | |
noun (n.) Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. |
penciled | adjective (a.) Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil. |
adjective (a.) Radiated; having pencils of rays. | |
adjective (a.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Pencil |
pencillate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pencillated |
pencillated | adjective (a.) Shaped like a pencil; penicillate. |
pencraft | noun (n.) Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. |
noun (n.) The art of composing or writing; authorship. |
pend | noun (n.) Oil cake; penock. |
verb (v. i.) To hang; to depend. | |
verb (v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment. | |
verb (v. t.) To pen; to confine. |
pending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pend |
adjective (a.) Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit. | |
prep (prep.) During; as, pending the trail. |
pendant | noun (n.) Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. |
noun (n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. | |
noun (n.) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase. | |
noun (n.) A pendulum. | |
noun (n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended. |
pendence | noun (n.) Slope; inclination. |
pendency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being pendent or suspended. |
noun (n.) The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit. |
pendent | adjective (a.) Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf. |
adjective (a.) Jutting over; projecting; overhanging. |
pendentive | noun (n.) The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. |
noun (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel. |
pendice | noun (n.) A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse. |
pendicle | noun (n.) An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. |
pendicler | noun (n.) An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft. |
pendragon | noun (n.) A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. |
pendular | adjective (a.) Pendulous. |
pendule | noun (n.) A pendulum. |
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. |
pendulosity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being pendulous. |
pendulous | adjective (a.) Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. |
adjective (a.) Wavering; unstable; doubtful. | |
adjective (a.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary. |
pendulousness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity. |
pendulum | noun (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery. |
penelope | noun (n.) A genus of curassows, including the guans. |
penetrability | noun (n.) The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. |
penetrable | adjective (a.) Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively. |
penetrail | noun (n.) Penetralia. |
penetralia | noun (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace. |
noun (n. pl.) Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home. |
penetrance | noun (n.) Alt. of Penetrancy |
penetrancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia. |
penetrant | adjective (a.) Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold. |
penetrating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Penetrate |
adjective (a.) Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor. | |
adjective (a.) Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind. |
penetration | noun (n.) The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult. |
noun (n.) Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration. |
penetrative | adjective (a.) Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. |
adjective (a.) Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame. | |
adjective (a.) Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom. |
penetrativeness | noun (n.) The quality of being penetrative. |
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English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 'n':
pabulation | noun (n.) The act of feeding, or providing food. |
noun (n.) Food; fodder; pabulum. |
pacation | noun (n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking. |
pacification | noun (n.) The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. |
pacinian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century. |
packman | noun (n.) One who bears a pack; a peddler. |
paction | noun (n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain. |
pactolian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands. |
padelion | noun (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. |
pademelon | noun (n.) See Wallaby. |
paean | noun (n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities. |
noun (n.) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. | |
noun (n.) See Paeon. |
paeon | noun (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. |
pagan | noun (n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. |
noun (n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions. |
pagination | noun (n.) The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. |
pagurian | noun (n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit. |
paien | noun (n. & a.) Pagan. |
pain | noun (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. |
noun (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. | |
noun (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. | |
noun (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. | |
noun (n.) See Pains, labor, effort. | |
noun (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. | |
noun (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. | |
noun (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. |
paladin | noun (n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. |
palanquin | noun (n.) An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. |
paleogaean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. |
paleotherian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium. |
palestinian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palestinean |
palestinean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Palestine. |
palestrian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palestrical |
palification | noun (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. |
palladian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century. |
palliation | noun (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. |
noun (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. | |
noun (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. |
palmin | noun (n.) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil. |
noun (n.) Ricinolein. |
palmitin | noun (n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate. |
palpation | noun (n.) Act of touching or feeling. |
noun (n.) Examination of a patient by touch. |
palpicorn | noun (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi. |
palpitation | noun (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease. |
pan | noun (n.) A part; a portion. |
noun (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. | |
noun (n.) A leaf of gold or silver. | |
noun (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel. | |
noun (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented. | |
noun (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. | |
noun (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum. | |
noun (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. | |
noun (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. | |
noun (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. | |
noun (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard. | |
noun (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. | |
verb (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. |
panacean | adjective (a.) Having the properties of a panacea. |
pancratian | adjective (a.) Pancratic; athletic. |
pancreatin | noun (n.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. |
pandean | adjective (a.) Of or relating to the god Pan. |
pandiculation | noun (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy. |
panelation | noun (n.) The act of impaneling a jury. |
pangolin | noun (n.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater. |
panification | noun (n.) The act or process of making bread. |
pannikin | noun (n.) A small pan or cup. |
panomphean | adjective (a.) Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. |
panopticon | noun (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. |
noun (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties. |
panorpian | noun (n.) Same as Panorpid. |
adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Panorpa. |
panpharmacon | noun (n.) A medicine for all diseases; a panacea. |
panpresbyterian | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council. |
panshon | noun (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. |
panslavonian | adjective (a.) See Panslavic. |
pantaloon | noun (n.) A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. |
noun (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one. | |
noun (n.) In recent times, same as Trousers. |
pantechnicon | noun (n.) A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. |
pantheon | noun (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome. |
noun (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon. |
panton | noun (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel. |
papain | noun (n.) A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America. |
paphian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites. |
papion | noun (n.) A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint. |
papuan | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Papua. |
papyrean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous. |
paracelsian | noun (n.) A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings. |
adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century. |
paracyanogen | noun (n.) A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide. |
paradisean | adjective (a.) Paradisiacal. |
paradisian | adjective (a.) Paradisiacal. |
paraffin | noun (n.) Alt. of Paraffine |
paraglobulin | noun (n.) An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin. |
paragon | noun (n.) A companion; a match; an equal. |
noun (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition. | |
noun (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. | |
noun (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type. | |
verb (v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. | |
verb (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival. | |
verb (v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass. | |
verb (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison. |
paraguayan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paraguay. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paraguay. |
paralbumin | noun (n.) A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen. |
paralian | noun (n.) A dweller by the sea. |
paralipomenon | noun (n. pl.) A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles. |
parallelopipedon | noun (n.) A parallelopiped. |
paralyzation | noun (n.) The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed. |
parapectin | noun (n.) A gelatinous modification of pectin. |
paraphrasian | noun (n.) A paraphraser. |
paraxanthin | noun (n.) A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine. |
parelcon | noun (n.) The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb. |
parentation | noun (n.) Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. |
parergon | noun (n.) See Parergy. |
parhelion | noun (n.) A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene. |
parian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paros. |
noun (n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. |
parigenin | noun (n.) A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin. |
parillin | noun (n.) A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin. |
parishen | noun (n.) A parishioner. |
parisian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paris. |
parliamentarian | noun (n.) One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I. |
noun (n.) One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Parliament. |
parmesan | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy. |
parnassian | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America. |
noun (n.) One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Parnassus. |
parochian | noun (n.) A parishioner. |
adjective (a.) Parochial. |
paroophoron | noun (n.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male. |
parson | noun (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls. |
noun (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher. |
partan | noun (n.) An edible British crab. |
parthenon | noun (n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art. |
parthian | noun (n.) A native Parthia. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. |
participation | noun (n.) The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. |
noun (n.) Distribution; division into shares. | |
noun (n.) community; fellowship; association. |
particularization | noun (n.) The act of particularizing. |
partisan | noun (n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. |
noun (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy. | |
noun (n.) Any member of such a corps. | |
noun (n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff. | |
adjective (a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal. | |
adjective (a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps. |
parturition | noun (n.) The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth. |
noun (n.) That which is brought forth; a birth. |
parvolin | noun (n.) A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel. |
pasan | noun (n.) The gemsbok. |
pasquin | noun (n.) A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. |
verb (v. t.) To lampoon; to satiraze. |
passion | noun (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. |
noun (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action. | |
noun (n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents. | |
noun (n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. | |
noun (n.) Disorder of the mind; madness. | |
noun (n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below. | |
verb (v. t.) To give a passionate character to. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. |
passman | noun (n.) One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2. |