Name Report For First Name PERT:

PERT

First name PERT's origin is Celtic. PERT means "from the thorn bush or thicket". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PERT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pert.(Brown names are of the same origin (Celtic) with PERT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with PERT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming PERT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PERT AS A WHOLE:

perth wilpert rupert

NAMES RHYMING WITH PERT (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ert) - Names That Ends with ert:

mert cuthbert sigebert radbert wilbert aubert robert rambert adelbert adalbert aethelbert ailbert albert auhert bert calbert calvert colbert colvert culbert dealbert delbert elbert englebert evert fitzgilbert giselbert guilbert herlbert hubert inglebert kuhlbert kulbert lambert odhert sebert sigenert tahbert talbert tabbert odbert orbert hulbert seabert osbert hurlbert halbert gilbert filbert ewert ethelbert egbert edbert dalbert stewert mert-sekert eadbert ingelbert norbert herbert

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rt) - Names That Ends with rt:

meht-urt beircheart domingart everhart hart florismart raibeart taggart hobart baldhart stockhart alburt art bart bohort bort burkhart burt cort culbart curt eadburt eawart ewart gilburt gilibeirt gilleabart halbart halburt heort hulbart hurlbart kort kulbart kurt lambart odbart orbart osbart osburt

NAMES RHYMING WITH PERT (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (per) - Names That Begins with per:

per perahta perceval percival percy percyvelle perdix peredur peredurus peredwus peregrine perekin pereteanu perfecta pericles perke perkin perkins perkinson pernel pernell perren perrin perris perry perryn persephone persephonie perseus persis persius perye perzsi perzsike

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pe) - Names That Begins with pe:

peace peada peadar pearce pearroc pearson pedar pedra pedrine pedro peer peg pegasus pegeen peggy peigi peirce peisistratus pekar pekka pelagia peleus pelias pelicia pell pellam pellanor pellean pelleas pelles pellinore pelltun pelopia pelops pemphredo pemton penarddun penda pendaran pendewe pendragon penelope peneus penina peninah penleigh penley penn pennlea pennleah penny penrith penrod pensee penthea penthesilea pentheus penthia penton peony pepe pephredo pepik pepillo pepin pepita

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PERT:

First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 't':

padgett paget pant parfait pat payat payatt pazit phelot pierpont pierrepont pit plat platt preost preostcot preruet prescot prescott prewitt priest pruet pruitt pyt

English Words Rhyming PERT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PERT AS A WHOLE:

apertadjective (a.) Open; evident; undisguised.
 adverb (adv.) Openly.

apertionnoun (n.) The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

apertnessnoun (n.) Openness; frankness.

aperturenoun (n.) The act of opening.
 noun (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
 noun (n.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

appertainingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appertain

appertainmentnoun (n.) That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance.

appertinancenoun (n.) Alt. of Appertinence

appertinencenoun (n.) See Appurtenance.

appertinentnoun (n.) That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant.
 adjective (a.) Belonging; appertaining.

champertornoun (n.) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

champertynoun (n.) Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
 noun (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance.

depertibleadjective (a.) Divisible.

expertnoun (n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
 noun (n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
 noun (n.) A sworn appraiser.
 adjective (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
 verb (v. t.) To experience.

expertnessnoun (n.) Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

hypertheticaladjective (a.) Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical.

hyperthyrionnoun (n.) That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

hypertrophicadjective (a.) Alt. of Hypertrophical

hypertrophicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

hypertrophiedadjective (a.) Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

hypertrophynoun (n.) A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

impertinencenoun (n.) The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
 noun (n.) Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
 noun (n.) That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value.

impertinencynoun (n.) Impertinence.

impertinentnoun (n.) An impertinent person.
 adjective (a.) Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable.
 adjective (a.) Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark.
 adjective (a.) Trifing; inattentive; frivolous.

impertransibilitynoun (n.) The quality or state of being impertransible.

impertransibleadjective (a.) Incapable of being passed through.

impertrubableadjective (a.) Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity.

imperturbationnoun (n.) Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude.

imperturbedadjective (a.) Not perturbed.

impropertynoun (n.) Impropriety.

inexpertadjective (a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.
 adjective (a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

inexpertnessnoun (n.) Want of expertness or skill.

malapertnoun (n.) A malapert person.
 adjective (a.) Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

opertaneousadjective (a.) Concealed; private.

overmalapertadjective (a.) Excessively malapert or impudent.

pertadjective (a.) Open; evident; apert.
 adjective (a.) Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart.
 adjective (a.) Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent.
 verb (v. i.) To behave with pertness.

pertainingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pertain

perterebrationnoun (n.) The act of boring through.

perthiocyanogennoun (n.) Same as Persulphocyanogen.

perthitenoun (n.) A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.

pertinaciousadjective (a.) Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
 adjective (a.) Resolute; persevering; constant; steady.

pertinacitynoun (n.) The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.

pertinacynoun (n.) The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.
 noun (n.) Pertinacity.

pertinateadjective (a.) Pertinacious.

pertinencenoun (n.) Alt. of Pertinency

pertinencynoun (n.) The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness.

pertinentadjective (a.) Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence.
 adjective (a.) Regarding; concerning; belonging; pertaining.

pertnessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being pert.

pertransientadjective (a.) Passing through or over.

perturbabilitynoun (n.) The quality or state of being perturbable.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERT (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ert) - English Words That Ends with ert:


alertnoun (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
 adjective (a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
 adjective (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

avertnoun (n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
 verb (v. i.) To turn away.

chertnoun (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

chetvertnoun (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.

convertnoun (n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
 noun (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.
 verb (v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
 verb (v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
 verb (v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
 verb (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
 verb (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
 verb (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
 verb (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
 verb (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

covertadjective (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
 adjective (a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
 verb (v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
 verb (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
 verb (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

culvertnoun (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

desertnoun (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
 noun (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
 noun (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
 verb (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
 verb (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
 verb (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

dessertnoun (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

disconcertnoun (n.) Want of concert; disagreement.
 verb (v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
 verb (v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.

discovertnoun (n.) An uncovered place or part.
 adjective (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

disertadjective (a.) Eloquent.

encoubertnoun (n.) One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.

exsertadjective (a.) Alt. of Exserted
 adjective (a.) To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.

filbertnoun (n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

flobertnoun (n.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

gabertnoun (n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

hertnoun (n.) A hart.

indesertnoun (n.) Ill desert.

inertadjective (a.) Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
 adjective (a.) Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
 adjective (a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

invertnoun (n.) An inverted arch.
 adjective (a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
 verb (v. t.) To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
 verb (v. t.) To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
 verb (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
 verb (v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

lacertnoun (n.) A muscle of the human body.

misdesertnoun (n.) Ill desert.

overtadjective (a.) Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
 adjective (a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.

peertadjective (a.) Same as Peart.

pervertnoun (n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
 verb (v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.
 verb (v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
 verb (v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

povertnoun (n.) Poverty.

preconcertnoun (n.) Something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.
 verb (v. t.) To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

profertnoun (n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

reconvertnoun (n.) A person who has been reconverted.
 verb (v. t.) To convert again.

revertnoun (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
 verb (v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
 verb (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
 verb (v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
 verb (v. i.) To return; to come back.
 verb (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
 verb (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
 verb (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

robertnoun (n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.

solertadjective (a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.

unexpertadjective (a.) Not expert; inexpert.

vertnoun (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
 noun (n.) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
 noun (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

wertnoun (n.) A wart.
  () The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

woolertnoun (n.) The barn owl.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERT (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (per) - Words That Begins with per:


peracuteadjective (a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.

peradventurenoun (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure.
 adverb (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.

peraeopodnoun (n.) One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of Crustacea.

peragrationnoun (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution.

perambulatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perambulate

perambulationnoun (n.) The act of perambulating; traversing.
 noun (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.
 noun (n.) A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.

perambulatornoun (n.) One who perambulates.
 noun (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.
 noun (n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.

peramelesnoun (n.) Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot.

perbendnoun (n.) See Perpender.

perbreaknoun (n.) See Parbreak.

perbromatenoun (n.) A salt of perbromic acid.

perbromicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine.

perbromidenoun (n.) A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series.

percanoun (n.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.

percalenoun (n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

percalinenoun (n.) A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.
 noun (n.) A fine kind of cotton goods, usually of one color, and with a glossy surface, -- much use for linings.

percarbidenoun (n.) A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon.

percarburetnoun (n.) A percarbide.

percarburetedadjective (a.) Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.

perceivableadjective (a.) Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

perceivancenoun (n.) Power of perceiving.

perceivingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perceive

perceivernoun (n.) One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb).

percelynoun (n.) Parsley.

percentagenoun (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

perceptnoun (n.) That which is perceived.

perceptibilitynoun (n.) The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.
 noun (n.) Perception.

perceptibleadjective (a.) Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.

perceptionnoun (n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
 noun (n.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.
 noun (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
 noun (n.) An idea; a notion.

perceptiveadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

perceptivitynoun (n.) The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

percesocesnoun (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

perchnoun (n.) Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
 noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
 noun (n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
 noun (n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
 noun (n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
 noun (n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
 noun (n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
 verb (v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
 verb (v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
 verb (v. t.) To occupy as a perch.

perchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perch

perchantnoun (n.) A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.

percheronnoun (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

perchloratenoun (n.) A salt of perchloric acid.

perchloricadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.

perchloridenoun (n.) A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.

perchromicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.

perciformadjective (a.) Pertaining to the Perciformes.

perciformesnoun (n. pl.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families.

percipiencenoun (n.) Alt. of Percipiency

percipiencynoun (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.

percipientnoun (n.) One who, or that which, is percipient.
 adjective (a.) Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.

perclosenoun (n.) Same as Parclose.
 noun (n.) Conclusion; end.

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

percoideanoun (n. pl.) Same as Perciformes.

percolatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Percolate

percolationnoun (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PERT:

English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 't':

packetnoun (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
 noun (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
 verb (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.
 verb (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
 verb (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

pageantnoun (n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
 noun (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
 adjective (a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
 verb (v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

paintnoun (n.) A pigment or coloring substance.
 noun (n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
 noun (n.) A cosmetic; rouge.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
 verb (v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
 verb (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
 verb (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
 verb (v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
 verb (v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

pairmentnoun (n.) Impairment.

palaetiologistnoun (n.) One versed in palaetiology.

paleobotanistnoun (n.) One versed in paleobotany.

paleographistnoun (n.) One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

paleologistnoun (n.) One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

paleontologistnoun (n.) One versed in paleontology.

paleophytologistnoun (n.) A paleobotanist.

paletnoun (n.) Same as Palea.
 noun (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

paletotnoun (n.) An overcoat.
 noun (n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

palimpsestnoun (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.

palindromistnoun (n.) A writer of palindromes.

palletnoun (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
 noun (n.) Same as Palette.
 noun (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
 noun (n.) A potter's wheel.
 noun (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
 noun (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
 noun (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
 noun (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
 noun (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
 noun (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
 noun (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
 noun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
 noun (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.

palliamentnoun (n.) A dress; a robe.

palmatisectadjective (a.) Alt. of Palmatisected

palmcristnoun (n.) The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

palpitantadjective (a.) Palpitating; throbbing; trembling.

palsywortnoun (n.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers.

paludamentnoun (n.) See Paludamentum.

pamentnoun (n.) A pavement.

pamphletnoun (n.) A writing; a book.
 noun (n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
 verb (v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

pancratiastnoun (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

pancratistnoun (n.) An athlete; a gymnast.

pandectnoun (n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
 noun (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.

panditnoun (n.) See Pundit.

panegyristnoun (n.) One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.

panhellenistnoun (n.) An advocate of Panhellenism.

panslavistnoun (n.) One who favors Panslavism.

panspermatistnoun (n.) Alt. of Panspermist

panspermistnoun (n.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.

pantnoun (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
 noun (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.
 verb (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
 verb (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
 verb (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
 verb (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
 verb (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
 verb (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.

pantaletnoun (n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

pantheistnoun (n.) One who holds to pantheism.

pantheologistnoun (n.) One versed in pantheology.

pantisocratnoun (n.) A pantisocratist.

pantisocratistnoun (n.) One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

pantologistnoun (n.) One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.

pantomimistnoun (n.) An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.

pantophagistnoun (n.) A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.

papalistnoun (n.) A papist.

papboatnoun (n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish.
 noun (n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

paperweightnoun (n.) See under Paper, n.

papescentadjective (a.) Containing or producing pap; like pap.

papistnoun (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

parablastnoun (n.) A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels.

parabolistnoun (n.) A narrator of parables.

paracelsistnoun (n.) A Paracelsian.

paradoxistnoun (n.) One who proposes a paradox.

paragrammatistnoun (n.) A punster.

paragraphistnoun (n.) A paragrapher.

parakeetnoun (n.) Same as Parrakeet.
 noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

paramentnoun (n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.

paramountnoun (n.) The highest or chief.
 adjective (a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.

parapetnoun (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.
 noun (n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.

paraphrastnoun (n.) A paraphraser.

paraquetnoun (n.) Alt. of Paraquito

parchmentnoun (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
 noun (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.

parementnoun (n.) See Parament.

parentnoun (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
 noun (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.

parfitadjective (a.) Perfect.

pargetnoun (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.
 noun (n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
 noun (n.) Paint, especially for the face.
 verb (v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
 verb (v. t.) To paint; to cover over.
 verb (v. i.) To lay on plaster.
 verb (v. i.) To paint, as the face.

parliamentnoun (n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
 noun (n.) A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
 noun (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.
 noun (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.

parodistnoun (n.) One who writes a parody; one who parodies.

paroketnoun (n.) See Paroquet.

paroquetnoun (n.) Same as Parrakeet.

parquetnoun (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
 noun (n.) Same as Parquetry.
 noun (n.) In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the "agents de change," or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
 noun (n.) In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured.

parrakeetnoun (n.) Alt. of Parakeet

parrotnoun (n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.
 noun (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
 verb (v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot.
 verb (v. i.) To chatter like a parrot.

partnoun (n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.
 noun (n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.
 noun (n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.
 noun (n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.
 noun (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.
 noun (n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.
 noun (n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.
 noun (n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.
 noun (n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act.
 noun (n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.
 noun (n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.
 noun (n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
 noun (n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
 noun (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.
 noun (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
 noun (n.) To leave; to quit.
 verb (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.
 verb (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.
 verb (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.
 verb (v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake.
 adverb (adv.) Partly; in a measure.

partialistnoun (n.) One who is partial.
 noun (n.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect.

participantnoun (n.) A participator; a partaker.
 adjective (a.) Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

particularistnoun (n.) One who holds to particularism.

particularmentnoun (n.) A particular; a detail.

partitionmentnoun (n.) The act of partitioning.

partletnoun (n.) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.
 noun (n.) A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers.

parturientadjective (a.) Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.

parturifacientnoun (n.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.

pasquilantnoun (n.) A lampooner; a pasquiler.

passementnoun (n.) Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.

passe partoutnoun (n.) That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
 noun (n.) A master key; a latchkey.
 noun (n.) A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.

passionistnoun (n.) A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

passportnoun (n.) Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.
 noun (n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
 noun (n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.
 noun (n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.

pastnoun (n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by.
 verb (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.
 adverb (adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past.
 prep (prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.
 prep (prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
 prep (prep.) Above; exceeding; more than.

patnoun (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
 noun (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
 adjective (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
 verb (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
 adverb (adv.) In a pat manner.

patentadjective (a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
 adjective (a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
 adjective (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
 adjective (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
 adjective (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
 adjective (a.) A writing securing to an invention.
 adjective (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
 adjective (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
 verb (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

pathologistnoun (n.) One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

patientnoun (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
 noun (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
 adjective (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
 adjective (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
 adjective (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
 adjective (a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
 adjective (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
 verb (v. t.) To compose, to calm.

patriotnoun (n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.
 adjective (a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.

patristnoun (n.) One versed in patristics.

pauciloquentadjective (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech.

paulianistnoun (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

paulistnoun (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

pavementnoun (n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

paymentnoun (n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
 noun (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.
 noun (n.) Punishment; chastisement.

peagritnoun (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.

peanutnoun (n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

pearlwortnoun (n.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.

peartadjective (a.) Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.