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Peek
  • (v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice

    Peel
  • (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle
  • (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind
  • (v. t.) To plunder

    Peen
  • (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation
  • (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

    Peep
  • (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
  • (v. i.) To begin to appear

    Peer
  • (n.) A comrade
  • (v. i.) To come in sight
  • (v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal.

    Peevish
  • (a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction

    Peg
  • (n.) A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water.
  • (v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes
  • (v. t.) To put pegs into

    Pegasus
  • (n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates

    Pegmatite
  • (n.) Graphic granite.

    Pehlevi
  • (n.) An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents

    Peignoir
  • (n.) A woman's loose dressing sack

    Pejorative
  • (a.) Implying or imputing evil

    Pekoe
  • (n.) A kind of black tea.

    Pelage
  • (n.) The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.

    Pelagian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines.
  • (n.) A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace

    Pelagic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean

    Pelargonium
  • (n.) A large genus of plants of the order Geraniaceae, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla

    Pelerine
  • (n.) A woman's cape

    Pelf
  • (n.) Money

    Pelican
  • (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known

    Pelisse
  • (n.) A lady's or child's long outer garment, of silk or other fabric.

    Pellagra
  • (n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy

    Pellagrin
  • (n.) One who is afficted with pellagra.

    Pellet
  • (n.) A bullet
  • (v./.) To form into small balls.

    Pellicle
  • (n.) A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

    Pellitory
  • (n.) A composite plant (Anacyclus Pyrethrum) of the Mediterranean region, having finely divided leaves and whitish flowers

    Pellucid
  • (a.) Transparent

    Peloria
  • (n.) Abnormal regularity

    Pelorus
  • (n.) An instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp

    Pelota
  • (n.) A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket

    Pelt
  • (n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
  • (v. i.) To throw missiles.
  • (v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven

    Pelvic
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis

    Pelvimetry
  • (n.) The measurement of the pelvis.

    Pelvis
  • (n.) The calyx of a crinoid.

    Pemmican
  • (n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun

    Pemphigus
  • (n.) A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body

    Pen
  • (n.) A feather.
  • (n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage
  • (v. t.) To write

    Penal
  • (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment

    Penance
  • (n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression
  • (v. t.) To impose penance

    Penates
  • (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth

    Pence
  • (n.) pl. of Penny.

    Penchant
  • (n.) A game like bezique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together

    Pencil
  • (n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point
  • (v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil

    Pend
  • (n.) Oil cake
  • (v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
  • (v. t.) To pen

    Penelope
  • (n.) A genus of curassows, including the guans.

    Peneplain
  • (n.) A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills

    Penetrable
  • (a.) Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively.

    Penetralia
  • (n. pl.) Hidden things or secrets

    Penetrant
  • (a.) Having power to enter or pierce

    Penetrate
  • (v. i.) To pass
  • (v. t.) To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings

    Penetrating
  • (a.) Acute

    Penetration
  • (n.) Acuteness

    Penetrative
  • (a.) Acute

    Penguin
  • (n.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills

    Penholder
  • (n.) A handle for a pen.

    Penicillate
  • (a.) Having the form of a pencil

    Peninsula
  • (n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus

    Penis
  • (n.) The male member, or organ of generation.

    Penitence
  • (n.) The quality or condition of being penitent

    Penitent
  • (a.) Doing penance.
  • (n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance

    Penknife
  • (n.) A small pocketknife

    Penman
  • (n.) An author

    Penna
  • (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather.

    Penniless
  • (a.) Destitute of money

    Pennon
  • (n.) A pennant

    Penny
  • (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand
  • (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents

    Penology
  • (n.) The science or art of punishment.

    Pensile
  • (a.) Hanging

    Pension
  • (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
  • (v. t.) To grant a pension to

    Pensive
  • (a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness

    Penstock
  • (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses

    Pent
  • (v. t.) Penned or shut up

    Penult
  • (n.) The last syllable but one of a word

    Penumbra
  • (n.) An incomplete or partial shadow.

    Penurious
  • (a.) Destitute of money

    Penury
  • (n.) Absence of resources

    Peon
  • (n.) A day laborer

    People
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants

    Peplum
  • (n.) A peplos. Hence: An overskirt hanging like an ancient peplos

    Pepo
  • (n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd.

    Pepper
  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit
  • (v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at).
  • (v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon

    Pepsin
  • (n.) An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach

    Peptic
  • (a.) Able to digest.
  • (n.) An agent that promotes digestion.

    Peptone
  • (n.) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice

    Peptonize
  • (v. t.) To convert into peptone

    Per
  • (prep.) Through

    Peradventure
  • (adv. & conj.) By chance
  • (n.) Chance

    Perambulate
  • (v. i.) To walk about
  • (v. t.) To walk through or over

    Perambulator
  • (n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.

    Percale
  • (n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side

    Percaline
  • (n.) A fine kind of cotton goods, usually of one color, and with a glossy surface

    Perceive
  • (v. t.) To be affected of influented by.

    Percentage
  • (n.) A certain rate per cent

    Percept
  • (n.) That which is perceived.

    Perch
  • (n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards
  • (v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird
  • (v. t.) To occupy as a perch.

    Percipient
  • (a.) Having the faculty of perception
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is percipient.

    Percoid
  • (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae.
  • (n.) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae.

    Percolate
  • (v. i.) To pass through fine interstices
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor

    Percolator
  • (n.) A kind of coffee pot in which the heated water is caused to filter through the coffee and thus extract its essence

    Percurrent
  • (a.) Running through the entire length.

    Percuss
  • (v. i.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion.
  • (v. t.) To strike smartly

    Perdition
  • (n.) Entire loss

    Perdurable
  • (n.) Very durable

    Perdure
  • (v. i.) To last or endure for a long time

    Peregrinate
  • (a.) Having traveled
  • (v. i.) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another

    Peregrination
  • (n.) A traveling from one country to another

    Peregrine
  • (a.) Foreign
  • (n.) The peregrine falcon.

    Peremptory
  • (a.) Firmly determined

    Perennial
  • (a.) Continuing more than two years
  • (n.) A perennial plant

    Perfect
  • (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness
  • (n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

    Perfervid
  • (a.) Very fervid

    Perfidious
  • (a.) Guilty of perfidy

    Perfidy
  • (n.) The act of violating faith or allegiance

    Perfoliate
  • (a.) Having the basal part produced around the stem

    Perforate
  • (v.) To bore through

    Perforation
  • (n.) A hole made by boring or piercing

    Perforce
  • (adv.) By force
  • (v. t.) To force

    Perform
  • (v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something
  • (v. t.) To carry through

    Perfume
  • (v.) A substance that emits an agreeable odor.
  • (v. t.) To fill or impregnate with a perfume

    Perfunctory
  • (a.) Done merely to get rid of a duty

    Perfuse
  • (v. t.) To suffuse

    Pergola
  • (n.) An arbor or trellis treated architecturally, as with stone columns or similar massive structure

    Perhaps
  • (adv.) By chance

    Peri
  • (n.) An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished

    Perjure
  • (n.) A perjured person.
  • (v. t.) To cause to violate an oath or a vow

    Perjury
  • (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding

    Perk
  • (a.) Smart
  • (v. i.) To exalt one's self
  • (v. t.) To make trim or smart

    Permanent
  • (a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character

    Permanganate
  • (n.) A salt of permanganic acid.

    Permeability
  • (n.) The quality or state of being permeable.

    Permeable
  • (a.) Capable of being permeated, or passed through

    Permeance
  • (n.) Permeation

    Permeate
  • (v. t.) To enter and spread through

    Permian
  • (a.) Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era
  • (n.) The Permian period.

    Permissible
  • (a.) That may be permitted

    Permission
  • (n.) The act of permitting or allowing

    Permissive
  • (a.) Permitted

    Permit
  • (n.) A large pompano (Trachinotus goodei) of the West Indies, Florida, etc. It becomes about three feet long
  • (v. i.) To grant permission
  • (v. t.) To consent to

    Permutation
  • (n.) Any one of such possible arrangements.

    Permute
  • (v. t.) To exchange

    Pernicious
  • (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing

    Peroneal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula

    Perorate
  • (v. i.) To make a peroration

    Peroxide
  • (n.) An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides

    Perpend
  • (v. i.) To attend
  • (v. t.) To weight carefully in the mind.

    Perpetrate
  • (v. t.) To do or perform

    Perpetual
  • (a.) Neverceasing

    Perpetuate
  • (a.) Made perpetual
  • (v. t.) To make perpetual

    Perpetuity
  • (n.) A perpetual annuity.

    Perplex
  • (a.) Intricate

    Perquisite
  • (n.) Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered

    Perrier
  • (n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.

    Perron
  • (n.) An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story

    Perry
  • (n.) A fermented liquor made from pears

    Pers
  • (a.) Light blue
  • (n.) A cloth of sky-blue color.

    Pert
  • (a.) Indecorously free, or presuming
  • (v. i.) To behave with pertness.

    Peruke
  • (n.) A wig
  • (v. t.) To dress with a peruke.

    Peruse
  • (v. t.) To observe

    Peruvian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Peru.

    Pervade
  • (v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice

    Pervasive
  • (a.) Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout

    Perverse
  • (a.) Obstinate in the wrong

    Perversion
  • (n.) The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted

    Perversity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being perverse

    Perversive
  • (a.) Tending to pervert.

    Pervert
  • (n.) One who has been perverted
  • (v. i.) To become perverted
  • (v. t.) To turnanother way

    Pervious
  • (a.) Admitting passage

    Pes
  • (n.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

    Peseta
  • (n.) A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos

    Pesky
  • (a.) Pestering

    Peso
  • (n.) A Spanish dollar

    Pessary
  • (n.) A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina

    Pessimism
  • (n.) A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.

    Pessimist
  • (n.) One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism

    Pest
  • (n.) A fatal epidemic disease

    Pet
  • (a.) Petted
  • (n.) A cade lamb
  • (v. i.) To be a pet.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a pet

    Petal
  • (n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.

    Petard
  • (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc

    Petaurist
  • (n.) Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera.

    Peter
  • (n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
  • (v. i.) To become exhausted

    Petiole
  • (n.) A leafstalk

    Petiolule
  • (n.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.

    Petite
  • (a.) Small, little

    Petition
  • (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it
  • (v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.
  • (v. t.) To make a prayer or request to

    Petrel
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera

    Petrify
  • (v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.

    Petrine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to St.Peter

    Petrography
  • (n.) The art of writing on stone.

    Petrol
  • (n.) Petroleum.

    Petronel
  • (n.) A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.

    Petrosal
  • (a.) Hard
  • (n.) A petrosal bone.

    Petrous
  • (a.) Like stone

    Pettifogger
  • (n.) A lawyer who deals in petty cases

    Pettifogging
  • (a.) Paltry
  • (n.) Pettifoggery.

    Pettish
  • (a.) Fretful

    Pettitoes
  • (n. pl.) The toes or feet of a pig

    Petty
  • (superl.) Little

    Petulant
  • (a.) Capriciously fretful

    Petunia
  • (n.) A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P

    Petuntze
  • (n.) Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

    Pew
  • (n.) Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with pews.

    Pewee
  • (n.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe

    Pewit
  • (n.) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus).

    Pewter
  • (n.) A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth

    Pfennig
  • (n.) A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency

    Phaeton
  • (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat

    Phagedena
  • (n.) A canine appetite

    Phagocyte
  • (n.) A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed

    Phalanger
  • (n.) Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidae

    Phalanx
  • (n.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men

    Phalarope
  • (n.) Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grallae), having lobate toes

    Phallic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

    Phallus
  • (n.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor

    Phantasm
  • (n.) A mental image or representation of a real object

    Phantom
  • (a.) Being, or of the nature of, a phantom.
  • (n.) That which has only an apparent existence

    Pharaoh
  • (n.) A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.

    Pharisaism
  • (n.) Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety

    Pharisee
  • (n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews

    Pharmaceutical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy

    Pharmaceutics
  • (n.) The science of preparing medicines.

    Pharmacist
  • (n.) One skilled in pharmacy

    Pharmacodynamics
  • (n.) That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines

    Pharmacognosy
  • (n.) Pharmacognosis.

    Pharmacology
  • (n.) A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.

    Pharmacopoeia
  • (n.) A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine

    Pharmacy
  • (n.) A place where medicines are compounded

    Pharyngeal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx
  • (n.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage

    Pharyngitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the pharynx.

    Pharynx
  • (n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias

    Phase
  • (n.) A homogenous, physically distinct portion of matter in a system not homogeneous
  • (v. t.) To disturb the composure of

    Phasmid
  • (n.) Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.

    Pheasant
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia

    Phelloderm
  • (n.) A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

    Phellogen
  • (n.) The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

    Phenacite
  • (n.) A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz

    Phenanthrene
  • (n.) A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence

    Phenix
  • (n.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes

    Phenocryst
  • (n.) One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

    Phenol
  • (n.) Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type.

    Phenomenal
  • (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon

    Phenomenology
  • (n.) A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.

    Phenomenon
  • (n.) An appearance

    Phenyl
  • (n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives

    Phial
  • (n.) A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines
  • (v. t.) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.

    Philander
  • (n.) A lover.
  • (v. i.) To make love to women

    Philanthropy
  • (n.) Love to mankind

    Philately
  • (n.) The collection of postage stamps of various issues.

    Philharmonic
  • (a.) Loving harmony or music.
  • (n.) One who loves harmony or music

    Philhellene
  • (n.) A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks

    Philippic
  • (n.) Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon

    Philistine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
  • (n.) A bailiff.

    Philogyny
  • (n.) Fondness for women

    Philology
  • (n.) A treatise on the science of language.

    Philoprogenitive
  • (a.) Having the love of offspring

    Philosophe
  • (n.) A philosophaster

    Philosophical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to philosophy

    Philosophize
  • (v. i.) To reason like a philosopher

    Philosophy
  • (n.) A particular philosophical system or theory

    Philter
  • (n.) A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.
  • (v. t.) To charm to love

    Phimosis
  • (n.) A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis

    Phlebitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of a vein.

    Phlebotomize
  • (v. t.) To let blood from by opening a vein

    Phlebotomy
  • (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease

    Phlegm
  • (a.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.

    Phloem
  • (n.) That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark

    Phlogiston
  • (n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element

    Phlox
  • (n.) A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.

    Phocine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the seal tribe

    Phoebe
  • (n.) The pewee, or pewit.

    Phoebus
  • (n.) Apollo

    Phoenician
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Phoenica.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Phoenica.

    Phoenix
  • (n.) A genus of palms including the date tree.

    Phone
  • (n. & v. t.) Colloq. for Telephone.

    Phonic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sound

    Phonogram
  • (n.) A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.

    Phonograph
  • (n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

    Phonolite
  • (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck

    Phonology
  • (n.) The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones

    Phonoscope
  • (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies

    Phonotypy
  • (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character

    Phosgene
  • (a.) Producing, or produced by, the action of light

    Phosgenite
  • (n.) A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster

    Phosphate
  • (n.) A salt of phosphoric acid.

    Phosphaturia
  • (n.) The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

    Phosphene
  • (n.) A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed

    Phosphide
  • (n.) A binary compound of phosphorus.

    Phosphine
  • (n.) A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic

    Phosphite
  • (n.) A salt of phosphorous acid.

    Phosphonium
  • (n.) The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine

    Phosphor
  • (n.) Phosphorus.

    Photic
  • (a.) Of or pert. to light

    Photo
  • (n.) A contraction of Photograph.

    Phrasal
  • (a.) Of the nature of a phrase

    Phrase
  • (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence
  • (v. i.) To group notes into phrases
  • (v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words

    Phrasing
  • (n.) Method of expression

    Phratry
  • (n.) A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

    Phreatic
  • (a.) Subterranean

    Phrenic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the diaphragm

    Phrenology
  • (n.) In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall, that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are shown on the surface of the head or skull

    Phrygian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.
  • (n.) A Montanist.

    Phthalein
  • (n.) One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and well represented by phenol phthalein

    Phthiriasis
  • (n.) A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body

    Phthisis
  • (n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption

    Phycology
  • (n.) The science of algae, or seaweeds

    Phylactery
  • (n.) Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the relics of the dead were inclosed.

    Phyle
  • (n.) A local division of the people in ancient Athens

    Phyllite
  • (n.) A mineral related to ottrelite.

    Phylloid
  • (a.) Resembling a leaf.

    Phyllophagous
  • (a.) Substituting on leaves

    Phylloxera
  • (n.) A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe

    Phylogeny
  • (n.) The history of genealogical development

    Phylum
  • (n.) A series of animals or plants genetically connected.

    Physic
  • (n.) A physician.
  • (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine

    Physiognomy
  • (n.) The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face

    Physiography
  • (n.) The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished from the explanatory or theoretic part

    Physiological
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to physiology

    Physiology
  • (n.) A treatise on physiology.

    Physique
  • (n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

    Physostigmine
  • (n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline

    Phytochemistry
  • (n.) Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies

    Phytogeny
  • (n.) The doctrine of the generation of plants.

    Phytogeography
  • (n.) The geographical distribution of plants.

    Phytography
  • (n.) The science of describing plants in a systematic manner

    Phytology
  • (n.) The science of plants

    Phyton
  • (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves

    Phytopathology
  • (n.) The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

    Phytophagous
  • (a.) Feeding on plants


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