First Names Rhyming PALAEMON
English Words Rhyming PALAEMON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PALAEMON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PALAEMON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (alaemon) - English Words That Ends with alaemon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (laemon) - English Words That Ends with laemon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (aemon) - English Words That Ends with aemon:
| daemon | adjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic |
| eudaemon | noun (n.) A good angel. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (emon) - English Words That Ends with emon:
| cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
| | noun (n.) The nightmare. |
| demon | noun (n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. |
| | noun (n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates. |
| | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil. |
| eudemon | noun (n.) Alt. of Eudaemon |
| hieromnemon | noun (n.) The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister. |
| | noun (n.) A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. |
| lemon | noun (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet. |
| | noun (n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (mon) - English Words That Ends with mon:
| backgammon | noun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. |
| | verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table". |
| cinnamon | noun (n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices. |
| | noun (n.) Cassia. |
| common | noun (n.) The people; the community. |
| | noun (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons. |
| | noun (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right. |
| | verb (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. |
| | verb (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. |
| | verb (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. |
| | verb (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. |
| | verb (v.) Profane; polluted. |
| | verb (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. |
| | verb (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer. |
| | verb (v. i.) To participate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. |
| | verb (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common. |
| etymon | noun (n.) An original form; primitive word; root. |
| | noun (n.) Original or fundamental signification. |
| gammon | noun (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. |
| | noun (n.) Backgammon. |
| | noun (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. |
| glossocomon | noun (n.) A kind of hoisting winch. |
| gnomon | noun (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis. |
| | noun (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow. |
| | noun (n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df. |
| | noun (n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe. |
| ichneumon | noun (n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra. |
| | noun (n.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera. |
| mammon | noun (n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. |
| mormon | noun (n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin. |
| | noun (n.) The mandrill. |
| | noun (n.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters. |
| | noun (n.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices. |
| musimon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
| musmon | noun (n.) See Mouflon. |
| mon | noun (n.) The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used. |
| norimon | noun (n.) A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. |
| persimmon | noun (n.) An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. |
| phlegmon | noun (n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue. |
| plasmon | noun (n.) A flourlike food preparation made from skim milk, and consisting essentially of the unaltered proteid of milk. It is also used in making biscuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance. |
| salmon | adjective (a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon. |
| | verb (v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat. |
| | verb (v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. |
| | (pl. ) of Salmon |
| sermon | noun (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense. |
| | verb (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture. |
| solomon | noun (n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man. |
| stasimon | noun (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics. |
| uncommon | adjective (a.) Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PALAEMON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (palaemo) - Words That Begins with palaemo:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (palaem) - Words That Begins with palaem:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (palae) - Words That Begins with palae:
| palaeographer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palaeographic |
| palaeographic | adjective (a.) See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc. |
| palaeotype | noun (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. |
| palaestra | noun (n.) See Palestra. |
| palaestric | adjective (a.) See Palestric. |
| palaetiologist | noun (n.) One versed in palaetiology. |
| palaetiology | noun (n.) The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (pala) - Words That Begins with pala:
| 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. |
| palacious | adjective (a.) Palatial. |
| paladin | noun (n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. |
| palama | noun (n.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together. |
| palamedeae | noun (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds. |
| palampore | noun (n.) See Palempore. |
| palanka | noun (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses. |
| 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. |
| palapteryx | noun (n.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand. |
| palatability | noun (n.) Palatableness. |
| palatable | adjective (a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice. |
| palatableness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness. |
| palatal | noun (n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones. |
| | adjective (a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk. |
| palate | noun (n.) The roof of the mouth. |
| | noun (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. |
| | noun (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perceive by the taste. |
| palatial | noun (n.) A palatal letter. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures. |
| | adjective (a.) Palatal; palatine. |
| palatic | noun (n.) A palatal. |
| | adjective (a.) Palatal; palatine. |
| palatinate | noun (n.) The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a palatinate of. |
| palatine | noun (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count. |
| | noun (n.) The Palatine hill in Rome. |
| | noun (n.) A palatine bone. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate. |
| palative | adjective (a.) Pleasing to the taste; palatable. |
| palatonares | noun (n. pl.) The posterior nares. See Nares. |
| palatopterygoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed. |
| palaver | noun (n.) Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. |
| | noun (n.) In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. |
| palavering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palaver |
| palaverer | noun (n.) One who palavers; a flatterer. |
| palamate | adjective (a.) Web-footed. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pal) - Words That Begins with pal:
| pal | noun (n.) A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. |
| pale | noun (n.) Paleness; pallor. |
| | noun (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. |
| | noun (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. |
| | noun (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. |
| | noun (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment. |
| | noun (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it. |
| | noun (n.) A cheese scoop. |
| | noun (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. |
| | verb (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. |
| | verb (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. |
| paling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pale |
| | noun (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure. |
| | noun (n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. |
| 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. |
| paleaceous | adjective (a.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle. |
| palearctic | adjective (a.) Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia. |
| paled | adjective (a.) Striped. |
| | adjective (a.) Inclosed with a paling. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Pale |
| 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. |
| paleface | noun (n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. |
| paleichthyes | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. |
| palely | adjective (a.) In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. |
| palempore | noun (n.) A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings. |
| paleness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness. |
| palenque | noun (n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras. |
| paleobotanist | noun (n.) One versed in paleobotany. |
| paleobotany | noun (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants. |
| paleocarida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Merostomata. |
| paleocrinoidea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. |
| paleocrystic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation. |
| paleogaean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. |
| paleograph | noun (n.) An ancient manuscript. |
| paleographer | noun (n.) One skilled in paleography; a paleographist. |
| paleographic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Paleographical |
| paleographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to paleography. |
| paleographist | noun (n.) One versed in paleography; a paleographer. |
| paleography | noun (n.) An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. |
| | noun (n.) The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters; diplomatics. |
| paleola | noun (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule. |
| paleolith | noun (n.) A relic of the Paleolithic era. |
| paleolithic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings. |
| paleologist | noun (n.) One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity. |
| paleology | noun (n.) The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archaeology . |
| paleontographical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains. |
| paleontography | noun (n.) The description of fossil remains. |
| paleontological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to paleontology. |
| paleontologist | noun (n.) One versed in paleontology. |
| paleontology | noun (n.) The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life. |
| paleophytologist | noun (n.) A paleobotanist. |
| paleophytology | noun (n.) Paleobotany. |
| paleornithology | noun (n.) The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds. |
| paleosaurus | noun (n.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation. |
| paleotechnic | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art. |
| paleothere | noun (n.) Any species of Paleotherium. |
| paleotherian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium. |
| paleotherium | noun (n.) An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. |
| paleotheroid | noun (n.) An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere. |
| | () Resembling Paleotherium. |
| paleotype | noun (n.) See Palaeotype. |
| paleous | adjective (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. |
| paleozoic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology. |
| paleozoology | noun (n.) The Paleozoic time or strata. |
| paleozooogy | noun (n.) The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PALAEMON:
English Words which starts with 'pal' and ends with 'mon':
English Words which starts with 'pa' and ends with 'on':
| 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. |
| paction | noun (n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain. |
| padelion | noun (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. |
| pademelon | noun (n.) See Wallaby. |
| 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. |
| pagination | noun (n.) The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. |
| palification | noun (n.) The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. |
| 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. |
| palpation | noun (n.) Act of touching or feeling. |
| | noun (n.) Examination of a patient by touch. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| panification | noun (n.) The act or process of making bread. |
| 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. |
| panpharmacon | noun (n.) A medicine for all diseases; a panacea. |
| panshon | noun (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. |
| 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. |
| papion | noun (n.) A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| pasteurization | noun (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments. |
| patacoon | noun (n.) See Pataca. |
| patefaction | noun (n.) The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. |
| patrocination | noun (n.) The act of patrocinating or patronizing. |
| patron | noun (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. |
| | noun (n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him. |
| | noun (n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself. |
| | noun (n.) An advocate or pleader. |
| | noun (n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art. |
| | noun (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. |
| | noun (n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint. |
| | noun (n.) See Padrone, 2. |
| | adjective (a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary. |
| | verb (v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. |
| patronization | noun (n.) The act of patronizing; patronage; support. |
| patroon | noun (n.) One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey. |
| pauldron | noun (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece. |
| pauperization | noun (n.) The act or process of reducing to pauperism. |
| pavilion | noun (n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. |
| | noun (n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile. |
| | noun (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Tent (Her.) |
| | noun (n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant. |
| | noun (n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. |
| | noun (n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. |
| pavon | noun (n.) A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon. |
| paillon | noun (n.) A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium. |
