Words starting with p

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

pacifist means: opposed to war

pacifistic means: opposed to war

pacifistically means: in a pacifistic manner

pacify means: fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)

pacify means: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

pacing means: walking with slow regular strides

pacing means: (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

pacinian corpuscle means: a specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin; occurs abundantly in the skin of palms and soles and joints and genitals

pack means: a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)

pack means: a bundle (especially one carried on the back)

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

allantois means: the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)

ascetically means: in an ascetic manner

connemara heath means: low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple

cycadopsida means: palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)

day boarder means: a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home

default means: loss due to not showing up

default means: an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified

default means: loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

default means: act of failing to meet a financial obligation

default means: fail to pay up

department store means: a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain

guttiferae means: widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber

hireling means: a person who works only for money

hold out means: thrust or extend out

hold out means: stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something

hold out means: continue to live and avoid dying

hold out means: wait uncompromisingly for something desirable

hold out means: last and be usable

horse parsley means: European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb

movement of holy warriors means: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan