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Pro
  • (a.) A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
  • (adv.) For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side

    Proa
  • (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat

    Probabilism
  • (n.) The doctrine of the probabilists.

    Probability
  • (n.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable

    Probable
  • (a.) Capable of being proved.

    Probably
  • (adv.) In a probable manner

    Probate
  • (a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate
  • (n.) Official proof
  • (v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament

    Probation
  • (n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.

    Probative
  • (a.) Serving for trial or proof

    Probe
  • (n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc

    Probity
  • (n.) Tried virtue or integrity

    Problem
  • (n.) Anything which is required to be done

    Proboscidean
  • (a.) Proboscidian.

    Proboscis
  • (n.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink

    Procambium
  • (n.) The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated

    Procedure
  • (n.) A step taken

    Proceed
  • (v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.

    Process
  • (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone

    Proclaim
  • (v. t.) To make known by public announcement

    Proclamation
  • (n.) That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared

    Proclitic
  • (a.) Leaning forward

    Proclivity
  • (n.) Inclination

    Proconsul
  • (n.) An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul

    Procrastinate
  • (v. i.) To delay
  • (v. t.) To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day

    Procreate
  • (v. t.) To generate and produce

    Procrustean
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him

    Procrustes
  • (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length

    Proctitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the rectum.

    Proctor
  • (n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity
  • (v. t.) To act as a proctor toward

    Procumbent
  • (a.) Lying down, or on the face

    Procuration
  • (n.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation

    Procurator
  • (n.) A governor of a province under the emperors

    Procure
  • (v. i.) To manage business for another in court.
  • (v. t.) To bring into possession

    Prod
  • (n.) A light kind of crossbow
  • (v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into

    Proem
  • (n.) Preface
  • (v. t.) To preface.

    Profane
  • (a.) Irreverent in language

    Profanity
  • (n.) That which is profane

    Profess
  • (v. i.) To declare friendship.
  • (v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.

    Proffer
  • (n.) An offer made
  • (v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord

    Proficiency
  • (n.) The quality of state of being proficient

    Proficient
  • (a.) Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill
  • (n.) One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning

    Profile
  • (n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc

    Profit
  • (n.) Accession of good
  • (v. i.) To be of use or advantage

    Profligate
  • (a.) Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency
  • (n.) An abandoned person
  • (v. t.) To drive away

    Profluent
  • (a.) Flowing forward,

    Profound
  • (a.) Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility
  • (n.) An abyss.
  • (v. i.) To dive deeply
  • (v. t.) To cause to sink deeply

    Profundity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being profound

    Profuse
  • (a.) Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance
  • (v. t.) To pour out

    Profusion
  • (n.) Abundance

    Prog
  • (n.) A goal
  • (v. i.) To prick

    Prohibit
  • (v. t.) To forbid by authority

    Project
  • (n.) An idle scheme
  • (v. i.) To form a project
  • (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind

    Projet
  • (n.) A plan proposed

    Prolapse
  • (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum
  • (v. i.) To fall down or out

    Prolate
  • (a.) Stretched out
  • (v. t.) To utter

    Proleg
  • (n.) One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects

    Prolepsis
  • (n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

    Proletarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the proletaries
  • (n.) A proletary.

    Proletariat
  • (n.) The indigent class in the State

    Proliferate
  • (v. t.) To produce or form cells

    Proliferation
  • (n.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation

    Proliferous
  • (a.) Bearing offspring

    Prolific
  • (a.) Having the quality of generating

    Prolix
  • (a.) Extending to a great length

    Prolocutor
  • (n.) One who speaks for another.

    Prolog
  • (n. & v.) Prologue.

    Prolong
  • (a.) To extend in space or length

    Prolusion
  • (n.) A trial before the principal performance

    Promenade
  • (n.) A place for walking
  • (v. i.) To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.

    Promethean
  • (a.) Having a life-giving quality
  • (n.) A kind of lucifer match.

    Prometheus
  • (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven

    Prominent
  • (a.) Eminent

    Promiscuity
  • (n.) Promiscuousness

    Promiscuous
  • (a.) Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order

    Promise
  • (a.) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing
  • (v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation
  • (v. t.) To afford reason to expect

    Promising
  • (a.) Making a promise or promises

    Promisor
  • (n.) One who engages or undertakes

    Promissory
  • (a.) Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.

    Promontory
  • (n.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast

    Promote
  • (v. i.) To urge on or incite another, as to strife
  • (v. t.) To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course)

    Promotive
  • (a.) Tending to advance, promote, or encourage.

    Prompt
  • (n.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods
  • (v. t.) To assist or induce the action of

    Promulgate
  • (v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings

    Pronate
  • (a.) Somewhat prone

    Pronator
  • (n.) A muscle which produces pronation.

    Prone
  • (a.) Bending forward

    Prong
  • (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument.

    Pronominal
  • (a.) Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.

    Pronoun
  • (n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they

    Pronucleus
  • (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum

    Pronunciamento
  • (n.) A proclamation or manifesto

    Pronunciation
  • (n.) The act of uttering with articulation

    Proof
  • (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength
  • (n.) Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth
  • (v. t.) Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable

    Prop
  • (n.) A shell, used as a die.
  • (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight
  • (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against

    Prorate
  • (v. t.) To divide or distribute proportionally

    Prorogue
  • (v. t.) To defer

    Prosaism
  • (n.) That which is in the form of prose writing

    Proscenium
  • (n.) The part of the stage in front of the curtain

    Proscribe
  • (v. t.) To denounce and condemn

    Proscription
  • (n.) The act of proscribing

    Prose
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose
  • (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
  • (v. i.) To write prose.
  • (v. t.) To write in prose.

    Prosit
  • (interj.) Lit., may it do (you) good

    Proslavery
  • (a.) Favoring slavery.
  • (n.) Advocacy of slavery.

    Prosody
  • (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition

    Prosoma
  • (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod

    Prospect
  • (v.) A position affording a fine view
  • (v. i.) To make a search
  • (v. t.) To look over

    Prosper
  • (v. i.) To be successful
  • (v. t.) To favor

    Prostate
  • (a.) Standing before
  • (n.) The prostate gland.

    Prostatitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the prostate.

    Prosthesis
  • (n.) The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye

    Prostitute
  • (a.) Openly given up to lewdness
  • (n.) A base hireling
  • (v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes

    Prostitution
  • (n.) The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power

    Prostomium
  • (n.) That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

    Prostrate
  • (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface
  • (v. t.) To cause to sink totally

    Prostyle
  • (a.) Having columns in front.
  • (n.) A prostyle portico or building.

    Prosy
  • (superl.) Dull and tedious in discourse or writing

    Protagonist
  • (n.) One who takes the leading part in a drama

    Protasis
  • (n.) A proposition

    Protean
  • (a.) Exceedingly variable

    Protect
  • (v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury

    Proteid
  • (n.) One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles, containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur

    Protein
  • (n.) A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name

    Proteolysis
  • (n.) The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

    Proteose
  • (n.) One of a class of soluble products formed in the digestion of proteids with gastric and pancreatic juice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids

    Protest
  • (v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary
  • (v. i.) To affirm in a public or formal manner
  • (v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation

    Proteus
  • (n.) A changeable protozoan

    Prothallus
  • (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs

    Prothesis
  • (n.) A credence table

    Prothoracic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

    Prothorax
  • (n.) The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects.

    Protist
  • (n.) One of the Protista.

    Protocol
  • (n.) A convention not formally ratified.
  • (v. i.) To make or write protocols, or first draughts
  • (v. t.) To make a protocol of.

    Protomartyr
  • (n.) The first martyr

    Protomorphic
  • (a.) Having the most primitive character

    Protonema
  • (n.) The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed

    Protonotary
  • (n.) A chief notary or clerk.

    Protoplasm
  • (n.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward

    Protoplast
  • (n.) A first-formed organized body

    Prototype
  • (n.) An original or model after which anything is copied

    Protoxide
  • (n.) That one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen.

    Protozoan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.
  • (n.) One of the Protozoa.

    Protract
  • (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
  • (v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space

    Protrude
  • (v. i.) To shoot out or forth
  • (v. t.) To thrust forward

    Protrusile
  • (a.) Capable of being protruded or thrust out

    Protrusion
  • (n.) The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.

    Protrusive
  • (a.) Capable of being protruded

    Protuberance
  • (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface

    Protuberant
  • (a.) Prominent, or excessively prominent

    Protuberate
  • (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface

    Protyle
  • (n.) The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements

    Proud
  • (superl.) Excited by sexual desire

    Proustite
  • (n.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive

    Prove
  • (v. i.) To be found by experience, trial, or result
  • (v. t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of

    Provide
  • (v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance
  • (v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant.

    Province
  • (n.) A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government

    Provincial
  • (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
  • (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order

    Provision
  • (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation
  • (v. t.) To supply with food

    Proviso
  • (n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided

    Provocation
  • (n.) An appeal to a court.

    Provocative
  • (a.) Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
  • (n.) Anything that is provocative

    Provoke
  • (v. i.) To appeal.
  • (v. t.) To call forth

    Provost
  • (n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something

    Prow
  • (a.) Benefit
  • (superl.) Valiant

    Prox
  • (n.) "The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes."

    Prude
  • (a.) A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness

    Pruinose
  • (a.) Frosty

    Prune
  • (n.) A plum
  • (v. i.) To dress
  • (v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.

    Prurient
  • (a.) Uneasy with desire

    Prurigo
  • (n.) A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color

    Pruritus
  • (n.) Itching.

    Prussiate
  • (n.) A salt of prussic acid

    Pry
  • (n.) A lever
  • (v. i.) To peep narrowly
  • (v. t.) To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever

    Prytaneum
  • (n.) A public building in certain Greek cities

    Psalm
  • (n.) A sacred song
  • (v. t.) To extol in psalms

    Psalter
  • (n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms

    Psammite
  • (n.) A species of micaceous sandstone.

    Pseudocarp
  • (n.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig

    Pseudomorph
  • (n.) An irregular or deceptive form.

    Pseudonym
  • (n.) A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author

    Pshaw
  • (interj.) Pish! pooch!—an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.
  • (v. i.) To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!"

    Psilomelane
  • (n.) A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color

    Psoas
  • (n.) An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebrae and inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas

    Psoriasis
  • (n.) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin

    Psyche
  • (n.) A cheval glass.

    Psychiatric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to psychiatria.

    Psychiatry
  • (n.) The application of the healing art to mental diseases.

    Psychogenesis
  • (n.) Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

    Psychological
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to psychology.

    Psychologist
  • (n.) One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.

    Psychology
  • (n.) The science of the human soul

    Psychometry
  • (n.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena

    Psychopathy
  • (n.) Mental disease.

    Psychophysics
  • (n.) The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness

    Psychosis
  • (n.) A disease of the mind

    Psychotherapy
  • (n.) Psychotherapeutics.

    Psychrometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer

    Ptarmigan
  • (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered

    Pteranodon
  • (n.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more

    Pteridology
  • (n.) That department of botany which treats of ferns.

    Pterodactyl
  • (n.) An extinct flying reptile

    Pteropod
  • (n.) One of the Pteropoda.

    Pterosaur
  • (n.) A pterodactyl.

    Pterygium
  • (n.) A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye

    Pteryla
  • (n.) One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow

    Ptolemaic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.

    Ptolemaist
  • (n.) One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.

    Ptomaine
  • (n.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids

    Ptosis
  • (n.) Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

    Ptyalin
  • (n.) An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals

    Ptyalism
  • (n.) Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.

    Puberty
  • (n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females

    Puberulent
  • (a.) Very minutely downy.

    Pubes
  • (n.) Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region

    Pubic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the pubes

    Pubis
  • (n.) The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis

    Public
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the people
  • (n.) A public house

    Publish
  • (v. t.) To make known by posting, or by reading in a church

    Puccoon
  • (n.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L

    Puce
  • (a.) Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

    Puck
  • (n.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night

    Pudding
  • (n.) An intestine

    Puddle
  • (n.) A small quantity of dirty standing water
  • (v. i.) To make a dirty stir.
  • (v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water

    Pudendum
  • (n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female

    Pudu
  • (n.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long

    Pueblo
  • (n.) A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe

    Puerile
  • (a.) Boyish

    Puerperal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to childbirth

    Puff
  • (a.) Puffed up
  • (n.) a kind of light pastry.
  • (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate

    Pug
  • (n.) A footprint
  • (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping

    Pugilism
  • (n.) The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

    Pugnacious
  • (a.) Disposed to fight

    Puissant
  • (a.) Powerful

    Puke
  • (a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.
  • (n.) A medicine that causes vomiting
  • (v. i.) To eject the contests of the stomach
  • (v. t.) To eject from the stomach

    Pulchritude
  • (n.) Attractive moral excellence

    Pule
  • (v. i.) To cry like a chicken.

    Pull
  • (n.) A contest
  • (v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling
  • (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one

    Pulmonary
  • (a.) Lungwort.

    Pulmonate
  • (a.) Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
  • (n.) One of the Pulmonata.

    Pulmonic
  • (a.) Relating to, or affecting the lungs
  • (n.) A pulmonic medicine.

    Pulp
  • (n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument.

    Pulque
  • (n.) An intoxicating Mexican drink.

    Pulsate
  • (v.) To throb, as a pulse

    Pulsatile
  • (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten

    Pulsation
  • (n.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part

    Pulsative
  • (a.) Beating

    Pulsator
  • (n.) A beater

    Pulse
  • (n.) Any measured or regular beat
  • (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries
  • (v. t.) To drive by a pulsation

    Pulsometer
  • (n.) A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston

    Pulverize
  • (v. i.) To become reduced to powder
  • (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like

    Pulvillus
  • (n.) One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

    Puma
  • (n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains

    Pumice
  • (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure

    Pump
  • (n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.
  • (v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying

    Pun
  • (n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings
  • (v. i.) To make puns, or a pun
  • (v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.

    Puna
  • (n.) A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.

    Punch
  • (n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint
  • (v. t.) To thrust against

    Punctilio
  • (n.) A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding

    Punctual
  • (a.) Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time

    Punctuate
  • (v. t.) To mark with points

    Punctuation
  • (n.) The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse

    Puncture
  • (n.) A small hole made by a point
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like

    Pundit
  • (n.) A learned man

    Pungent
  • (v. t.) Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings

    Punic
  • (a.) Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians

    Punish
  • (v. t.) To deal with roughly or harshly

    Punitive
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment

    Punitory
  • (a.) Punishing

    Punk
  • (n.) A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder

    Punster
  • (n.) One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning

    Punt
  • (n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
  • (v. i.) To boat or hunt in a punt.
  • (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.

    Puny
  • (n.) A youth
  • (superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor

    Pup
  • (n.) A young dog
  • (v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.

    Pupa
  • (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

    Pupil
  • (n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female

    Puppet
  • (n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama

    Puppy
  • (n.) A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth whelps

    Purana
  • (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants

    Purchasable
  • (a.) Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration

    Purchase
  • (v. i.) To acquire wealth or property.
  • (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement

    Purdah
  • (n.) A curtain or screen

    Pure
  • (superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt

    Purfle
  • (v. t.) To decorate with a wrought or flowered border

    Purgation
  • (n.) The act of purging

    Purgative
  • (a.) Having the power or quality of purging
  • (n.) A purging medicine

    Purgatory
  • (a.) Tending to cleanse
  • (n.) A state or place of purification after death

    Purge
  • (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification.
  • (v. t.) That which purges

    Purification
  • (n.) A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin

    Purificator
  • (n.) One who, or that which, purifies

    Purify
  • (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
  • (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement

    Purim
  • (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman

    Purism
  • (n.) Rigid purity

    Purist
  • (n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.

    Puritan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans
  • (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law

    Purity
  • (n.) Cleanness

    Purl
  • (n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid
  • (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations
  • (v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions
  • (v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

    Purple
  • (a.) Blood-red
  • (n.) A cardinalate.
  • (v. t.) To make purple

    Purport
  • (n.) Design or tendency

    Purpose
  • (n.) Instance
  • (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention
  • (v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self

    Purposive
  • (a.) Having or indicating purpose or design.

    Purpura
  • (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection

    Purpure
  • (n.) Purple

    Purpurin
  • (n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance

    Purr
  • (n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat
  • (v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat.

    Purse
  • (n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in
  • (v. i.) To steal purses
  • (v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse

    Purslane
  • (n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling

    Pursuance
  • (n.) The act of pursuing or prosecuting

    Pursuant
  • (a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything)

    Pursue
  • (v. i.) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party
  • (v. t.) To follow as an example

    Pursuit
  • (v. t.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain

    Pursuivant
  • (n.) A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties
  • (v. t.) To pursue.

    Pursy
  • (a.) Fat and short-breathed

    Purtenance
  • (n.) That which pertains or belongs to something

    Purulent
  • (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter

    Purvey
  • (v. i.) To pander
  • (v. t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.

    Purview
  • (n.) Limit or sphere of authority


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