Name Report For First Name PIA:
PIA
First name PIA's origin is Europe. PIA means "pious". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pia.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with PIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PIA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PIA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PİA AS A WHOLE:
pelopia olimpia piaras olympiaNAMES RHYMING WITH PİA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:
afia aminia ashia efia fowsia kamaria safia tawia beornia bernia odelia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia berengaria bethia cambria ingria abelia adalia aloysia agalaia agalia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia artemia aspasia athanasia basilia callia calligenia cassiopeia castalia celosia cosimia cynthia demetria dionysia egeria eileithyia elefteria erytheia eulallia eunomia euphemia eurycleia filia gelasia georgia harmonia hedia helia hesperia hestia hippodamia hygeia hypatia idalia iphegenia lamia lampetia laodamia lelia lethia obelia oleisia orithyia ortygia parthenia pelagia pelicia polyhymnia pythia sinovia sophia sophronia stasia terentia thalia theophania theophilia titania urania xenia xylia zelia zenia zenobia haliaNAMES RHYMING WITH PİA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pi) - Names That Begins with pi:
picaworth picford pickford pickworth pierce pierette pierpont pierre pierrel pierrepont pierretta pierrette piers pierson pietra pietro pike pilar pili pimne pin pinabel pinochos piper pipere piperel pippa pippin pippo pirithous pirmin piroska pirro pishachi pista pisti pit pithasthana pitney pittheus pityocamptes pius pivaneNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PİA:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'a':
pabla pachu'a paciencia padma paella pahana paharita pakuna pakwa palassa palba palmira paloma pamela pamuya panagiota pandara pandora panphila panthea panya paola paquita parnella parsa pascala pasclina pasha pastora patricia patrina patrizia paula paulita pavla paza pazia peada pedra pekka penda penina pennlea penthea penthesilea penthia pepita perahta perfecta pesha peta peterka petra petrica petrina petronela petronilla petunia phaedra phaethusa phedora pheodora phiala phila philana philberta philipinna philippa phillida phillina phillipa philomela philomena philomina philothea placida polikwaptiwa poloma polyxena portia posala powaqa pramlocha praza primavera priscilla priyana priyanka prudencia prunella puebla pura pureza purisima pyrena pyrrhaEnglish Words Rhyming PIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PİA AS A WHOLE:
| aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
| alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
| apiaceous | adjective (a.) Umbelliferous. |
| apian | adjective (a.) Belonging to bees. |
| apiarian | adjective (a.) Of or relating to bees. |
| apiarist | noun (n.) One who keeps an apiary. |
| apiary | noun (n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse. |
| appian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Appius. |
| asclepiad | noun (n.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. |
| asclepiadaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family. |
| asclepias | noun (n.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. |
| asthenopia | noun (n.) Weakness of sight. |
| atropia | noun (n.) Same as Atropine. |
| autocarpian | adjective (a.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. |
| anisometropia | noun (n.) Unequal refractive power in the two eyes. |
| anorthopia | noun (n.) Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent. |
| callithumpian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. |
| capias | noun (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias. |
| consopiation | noun (n.) The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. |
| cornucopia | noun (n.) The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance. |
| noun (n.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form. |
| diplopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Diplopy |
| esopian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aesop, or in his manner. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Esopic |
| ectopia | noun (n.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder. |
| emmetropia | noun (n.) That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism. |
| ephippial | adjective (a.) Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. |
| esculapian | noun (n.) Aesculapian. |
| espiaille | noun (n.) Espial. |
| espial | noun (n.) The act of espying; notice; discovery. |
| noun (n.) One who espies; a spy; a scout. |
| ethiopian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Ethiopic |
| expiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. |
| expiating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expiate |
| expiate | adjective (a.) Terminated. |
| verb (v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To purify with sacred rites. |
| expiation | noun (n.) The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. |
| noun (n.) The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. | |
| noun (n.) An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. |
| expiatist | noun (n.) An expiator. |
| expiator | noun (n.) One who makes expiation or atonement. |
| expiatorious | adjective (a.) Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. |
| expiatory | adjective (a.) Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice. |
| fallopian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. |
| hemeralopia | noun (n.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight. |
| hemiopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Hemiopsia |
| hippocrepian | noun (n.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema. |
| hypermetropia | noun (n.) Alt. of Hypermetropy |
| hyperopia | noun (n.) Hypermetropia. |
| inexpiable | adjective (a.) Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense. |
| adjective (a.) Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable. |
| inexpiableness | noun (n.) Quality of being inexpiable. |
| inexpiate | adjective (a.) Not appeased or placated. |
| kapia | noun (n.) The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PİA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - English Words That Ends with ia:
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
| noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
| noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
| noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
| noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
| adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
| adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
| noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
| noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
| ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
| amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
| amphibia | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of vertebrates. |
| (pl. ) of Amphibium |
| anaemia | adjective (a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity. |
| anaesthesia | noun (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic. |
| analgesia | noun (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain. |
| anaphrodisia | noun (n.) Absence of sexual appetite. |
| anesthesia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anesthetic |
| anglomania | noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. |
| anglophobia | noun (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. |
| anomia | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment. |
| anopsia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anopsy |
| anorexia | noun (n.) Alt. of Anorexy |
| anosmia | noun (n.) Loss of the sense of smell. |
| anthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris. |
| anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
| antlia | noun (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera. |
| antonomasia | noun (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PİA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (pi) - Words That Begins with pi:
| pigpecker | noun (n.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps. |
| pinocle | noun (n.) A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs. |
| noun (n.) See Penuchle. |
| pieing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pi |
| piacaba | noun (n.) See Piassava. |
| piacle | noun (n.) A heinous offense which requires expiation. |
| piacular | adjective (a.) Expiatory; atoning. |
| adjective (a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. |
| piacularity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. |
| piaculous | adjective (a.) Same as Piacular. |
| pial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the pia mater. |
| pian | noun (n.) The yaws. See Yaws. |
| pianet | noun (n.) The magpie. |
| noun (n.) The lesser woodpecker. |
| pianette | noun (n.) A small piano; a pianino. |
| pianino | noun (n.) A pianette, or small piano. |
| pianissimo | adjective (a.) Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.) |
| pianist | noun (n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano. |
| piano | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pianoforte |
| adverb (a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.) |
| pianoforte | adjective (a.) A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. |
| pianograph | noun (n.) A form of melodiograph applied to a piano. |
| piapec | noun (n.) A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis). |
| piarist | noun (n.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. |
| piassava | noun (n.) A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba. |
| piaster | noun (n.) A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents. |
| piastre | noun (n.) See Piaster. |
| piation | noun (n.) The act of making atonement; expiation. |
| piatti | noun (n. pl.) Cymbals. |
| piazza | noun (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. |
| pibcorn | noun (n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales. |
| pibroch | noun (n.) A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. |
| pic | noun (n.) A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches. |
| pica | noun (n.) The genus that includes the magpies. |
| noun (n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. | |
| noun (n.) A service-book. See Pie. | |
| noun (n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. |
| picador | noun (n.) A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him. |
| picamar | noun (n.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol. |
| picapare | noun (n.) The finfoot. |
| picard | noun (n.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite. |
| picaresque | adjective (a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer. |
| picariae | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds. |
| picarian | noun (n.) One of the Picariae. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Picariae. |
| picaroon | noun (n.) One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. |
| picayune | noun (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. |
| picayunish | adjective (a.) Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. |
| piccadil | noun (n.) Alt. of Piccadilly |
| piccadilly | noun (n.) A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century. |
| piccage | noun (n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. |
| piccalilli | noun (n.) A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies. |
| piccolo | noun (n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute. |
| noun (n.) A small upright piano. | |
| noun (n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone. |
| pice | noun (n.) A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. |
| picea | noun (n.) A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs. |
| picene | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance. |
| piceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy. |
| pichey | noun (n.) A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PİA:
English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 'a':
| paca | noun (n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig. |
| pacha | noun (n.) See Pasha. |
| () The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. |
| pachonta | noun (n.) A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata. |
| pachydermata | noun (n. pl.) A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group. |
| padella | noun (n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle. |
| pagina | noun (n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus. |
| pagoda | noun (n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship. |
| noun (n.) An idol. | |
| noun (n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees. |
| paguma | noun (n.) Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form. |
| paijama | noun (n.) Pyjama. |
| palaestra | noun (n.) See Palestra. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| palanka | noun (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses. |
| palea | noun (n.) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. |
| noun (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. |
| paleechinoidea | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini. |
| paleocarida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata. |
| paleocrinoidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. |
| paleola | noun (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule. |
| palestra | noun (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. |
| noun (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. |
| palingenesia | noun (n.) See Palingenesis. |
| palla | noun (n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches. |
| palliobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Brachiopoda. |
| palmyra | noun (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts. |
| palola | noun (n.) An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food. |
| pallometa | noun (n.) A pompano. |
| palpebra | noun (n.) The eyelid. |
| paludina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond. |
| panacea | noun (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction. |
| noun (n.) The herb allheal. |
| panada | noun (n.) Alt. of Panade |
| panda | noun (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India. |
| pandora | noun (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. | |
| noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| pantastomata | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. |
| pantopoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Pycnogonida. |
| papa | noun (n.) A child's word for father. |
| noun (n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church. |
| papaphobia | noun (n.) Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| papilla | noun (n.) Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue. |
| papilloma | noun (n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. |
| papula | noun (n.) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. |
| noun (n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. |
| para | noun (n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent. |
| noun (n.) The southern arm of the Amazon in Brazil; also, a seaport on this arm. | |
| noun (n.) Short for Para rubber. |
| parabola | noun (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus. |
| noun (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. |
| paracorolla | noun (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus. |
| paraglossa | noun (n.) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera. |
| paramatta | noun (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. |
| paranoia | noun (n.) Mental derangement; insanity. |
| noun (n.) A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusious of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks." Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing. |
| parapherna | noun (n. pl.) The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own. |
| paraphernalia | noun (n. pl.) Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree. |
| noun (n. pl.) Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments. |
| paraphagma | noun (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. |
| paraplegia | noun (n.) Alt. of Paraplegy |
| parapleura | noun (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects. |
| parasita | noun (n. pl.) An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc. |
| noun (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata. |
| parella | noun (n.) Alt. of Parelle |
| parenchyma | noun (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like. |
| paridigitata | noun (n. pl.) Same as Artiodactyla. |
| parkeria | noun (n.) A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball. |
| parnassia | noun (n.) A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus. |
| paronomasia | noun (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. |
| paronychia | noun (n.) A whitlow, or felon. |
| parousia | noun (n.) The nativity of our Lord. |
| noun (n.) The last day. |
| parraqua | noun (n.) A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan. |
| parrhesia | noun (n.) Boldness or freedom of speech. |
| partita | noun (n.) A suite; a set of variations. |
| parusia | noun (n.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events. |
| pascha | noun (n.) The passover; the feast of Easter. |
| pasha | noun (n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. |
| passacaglia | noun (n.) Alt. of Passacaglio |
| passiflora | noun (n.) A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. |
| pataca | noun (n.) The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. |
| patela | noun (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli. |
| patella | noun (n.) A small dish, pan, or vase. |
| noun (n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus. |
| patellula | noun (n.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects. |
| patena | noun (n.) A paten. |
| noun (n.) A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon. |
| patera | noun (n.) A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies. |
| noun (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like. |
| pathopoela | noun (n.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. |
| patina | noun (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella. |
| noun (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. |
| paulownia | noun (n.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis. |
| pauropoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae. |
| 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. |
| peba | noun (n.) An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou. |
| pecora | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle. |
| pectinibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck. |
| pectostraca | noun (n. pl.) A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia. |
| pedata | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill. |
| pedicellaria | noun (n.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| pedicellina | noun (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. |
| pediculina | noun (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| pedimana | noun (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums. |
| pedunculata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles. |
| pela | noun (n.) See Wax insect, under Wax. |
| pelecypoda | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lamellibranchia. |
| pelicosauria | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation. |
| pelioma | noun (n.) A livid ecchymosis. |
| noun (n.) See Peliom. |
| pellagra | noun (n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy. |
| pellibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill. |
| pelma | noun (n.) The under surface of the foot. |
| peloria | noun (n.) Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity. |
| pelta | noun (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. |
| noun (n.) A flat apothecium having no rim. |
| 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. |
| peninsula | noun (n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus. |
| penna | noun (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather. |
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