Name Report For First Name PETE:

PETE

First name PETE's origin is English. PETE means "a rock. form of peter". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PETE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pete.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with PETE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with PETE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming PETE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PETE AS A WHOLE:

ocypete peterka peterke peter peterson

NAMES RHYMING WITH PETE (According to last letters):

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

amanishakhete florete anaxarete arete dete luete lunete skete rhete grete allete kolete

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

linette maledysaunte tote suette annemette bergitte astarte rute agate bradamate huette josette pierrette yolette bernadette amphitrite aphrodite ate calliste fate hippolyte tienette vedette volante manute baptiste mette dante wambli-waste adette amette amite anate anjanette anjeanette annette annjeanette antoinette araminte argante ariette ariste arlette babette bemadette bernette bette birte bridgette brigette brigitte brite cate celeste chante chariste charlette charlotte chaunte clarette colette collette comforte danette davite dawnette diamante elberte ellette enite evette georgette georgitte ginnette hanriette harriette hecate hugette hughette idette ivette jaenette janette jaquenette jeanette jenette johnette jonette

NAMES RHYMING WITH PETE (According to first letters):

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

peta peta-gaye petiri petr petra petre petrica petrina petrine petron petronela petronilla petronille petrov petru petrus petunia

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 pepper pepperell peppi peppin per perahta perceval percival percy percyvelle perdix peredur peredurus peredwus peregrine perekin pereteanu

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PETE:

First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'e':

page paige paine paislee palmere parke parle parthenie pascale pascaline pasiphae pasquale patience patrice pauline payne pazice perke persephone persephonie perye perzsike phebe phemie philipe philippe philippine phillipe phoebe pierce pierette pierre pike pimne pipere pivane plaise pleasure podarge pommelraie pommeraie ponce porsche prentice prince procne promyse pruie prunellie psyche ptaysanwee pyrene pyrenie

English Words Rhyming PETE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PETE AS A WHOLE:

appetencenoun (n.) A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

appetencynoun (n.) Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite.
 noun (n.) Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism.
 noun (n.) Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.

appetentadjective (a.) Desiring; eagerly desirous.

centripetencenoun (n.) Centripetency.

centripetencynoun (n.) Tendency toward the center.

competencenoun (n.) Alt. of Competency

competencynoun (n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
 noun (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
 noun (n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
 noun (n.) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.

competentadjective (a.) Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
 adjective (a.) Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.

electrepeternoun (n.) An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.

inappetencenoun (n.) Alt. of Inappetency

inappetencynoun (n.) Want of appetency; want of desire.

incompetencenoun (n.) Alt. of Incompetency

incompetencynoun (n.) The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
 noun (n.) Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.

incompetentadjective (a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
 adjective (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
 adjective (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

papeterienoun (n.) A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

parapetedadjective (a.) Having a parapet.

petechiaenoun (n. pl.) Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.

petechialadjective (a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiae; spotted.

peternoun (n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
 verb (v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.

peteringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peter

peterelnoun (n.) See Petrel.

petereronoun (n.) See Pederero.

petermannoun (n.) A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter.

petershamnoun (n.) A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

peterwortnoun (n.) See Saint Peter's-wort, under Saint.

repetendnoun (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283.

saltpeternoun (n.) Alt. of Saltpetre

trumpeternoun (n.) One who sounds a trumpet.
 noun (n.) One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
 noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
 noun (n.) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
 noun (n.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.

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


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


accreteadjective (a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.
 adjective (a.) Grown together.
 verb (v. i.) To grow together.
 verb (v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.
 verb (v. t.) To make adhere; to add.

aesthetenoun (n.) One who makes much or overmuch of aesthetics.

agonothetenoun (n.) An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

asynarteteadjective (a.) Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted.

athletenoun (n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
 noun (n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.
 noun (n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

aplanogametenoun (n.) A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algae.

aretenoun (n.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

boletenoun (n.) any fungus of the family Boletaceae.

cetenoun (n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

completeadjective (a.) Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.
 adjective (a.) Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
 adjective (a.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

concretenoun (n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
 noun (n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
 noun (n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
 noun (n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
 adjective (a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
 adjective (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
 adjective (a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
 verb (v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
 verb (v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

cretenoun (n.) A Cretan

decolleteadjective (a.) Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
 adjective (a.) Wearing a decollete gown.

decretenoun (n.) A decree.

denticetenoun (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

depleteadjective (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
 adjective (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.

desueteadjective (a.) Disused; out of use.

discreteadjective (a.) Separate; distinct; disjunct.
 adjective (a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.
 adjective (a.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.
 verb (v. t.) To separate.

effeteadjective (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

esthetenoun (n.) Alt. of Esthetics

exegetenoun (n.) An exegetist.

exoleteadjective (a.) Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.

faceteadjective (a.) Facetious; witty; humorous.

fetenoun (n.) A feat.
 noun (n. pl.) Feet.
 noun (n.) A festival.
 verb (v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival.

greteadjective (a.) Great.

gametenoun (n.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

hebeteadjective (a.) Dull; stupid.

homiletenoun (n.) A homilist.

incompleteadjective (a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
 adjective (a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.

inconcreteadjective (a.) Not concrete.

indiscreteadjective (a.) Indiscreet.
 adjective (a.) Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous.

machetenoun (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.

mansueteadjective (a.) Tame; gentle; kind.

metenoun (n.) Meat.
 noun (n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.
 adjective (a.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To meet.
 verb (v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.
 verb (v. i.) To measure.

mysticetenoun (n.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.

naivetenoun (n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

nomothetenoun (n.) A lawgiver.

obsoleteadjective (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
 adjective (a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.
 verb (v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use.

odontocetenoun (n.pl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.

oligocheteadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Oligochaeta.

oppleteadjective (a.) Alt. of Oppleted

paracletenoun (n.) An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy Spirit.

perichetenoun (n.) Same as Perichaeth.

planogametenoun (n.) One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algae (Chlorophyceae).

repleteadjective (a.) Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.
 verb (v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety.

retenoun (n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

semitereteadjective (a.) Half terete.

spirochaetenoun (n.) A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochaete Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.

subtereteadjective (a.) Somewhat terete.

tereteadjective (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

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


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


petnoun (n.) A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
 noun (n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
 noun (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
 adjective (a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
 verb (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
 verb (v. i.) To be a pet.

pettingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pet

petalnoun (n.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
 noun (n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.

petaledadjective (a.) Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc.

petaliferousadjective (a.) Bearing petals.

petaliformadjective (a.) Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.

petalineadjective (a.) Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.

petalismnoun (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

petalitenoun (n.) A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.

petalodynoun (n.) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.

petaloidadjective (a.) Petaline.

petaloideousadjective (a.) Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline.

petalostichanoun (n. pl.) An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.

petalousadjective (a.) Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous.

petalumnoun (n.) A petal.

petarnoun (n.) See Petard.

petardnoun (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. It has been superseded.

petardeernoun (n.) Alt. of Petardier

petardiernoun (n.) One who managed a petard.

petasusnoun (n.) The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.

petauristnoun (n.) Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.

petiolaradjective (a.) Alt. of Petiolary

petiolaryadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to petiole, or proceeding from it; as, a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar gland; a petiolar bud.

petiolateadjective (a.) Alt. of Petiolated

petiolatedadjective (a.) Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.

petiolenoun (n.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
 noun (n.) A stalk or peduncle.

petioledadjective (a.) Petiolate.

petiolulateadjective (a.) Supported by its own petiolule.

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

petitadjective (a.) Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.

petitionnoun (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
 noun (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.
 verb (v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.
 verb (v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.

petitioningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Petition
 noun (n.) The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

petitionaryadjective (a.) Supplicatory; making a petition.
 adjective (a.) Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.

petitioneenoun (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.

petitionernoun (n.) One who presents a petition.

petitornoun (n.) One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.

petitoryadjective (a.) Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.

petongnoun (n.) See Packfong.

petralogynoun (n.) See Petrology.

petrarynoun (n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

petreanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to to rock.

petrenoun (n.) See Saltpeter.

petrelnoun (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.

petrescencenoun (n.) The process of changing into stone; petrification.

petrescentadjective (a.) Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.

petrifactionnoun (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
 noun (n.) The state or condition of being petrified.
 noun (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.

petrifactiveadjective (a.) Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.

petrificadjective (a.) Petrifying; petrifactive.

petrificationnoun (n.) See Petrifaction.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.

petrifyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Petrify

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PETE:

English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 'e':

paagenoun (n.) A toll for passage over another person's grounds.

pacableadjective (a.) Placable.

pacanenoun (n.) A species of hickory. See Pecan.

pacateadjective (a.) Appeased; pacified; tranquil.

pacenoun (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
 noun (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
 noun (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
 noun (n.) A slow gait; a footpace.
 noun (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
 noun (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.
 noun (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
 noun (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
 verb (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
 verb (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.
 verb (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
 verb (v. i.) To pass away; to die.
 verb (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
 verb (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
 verb (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

pachyotenoun (n.) One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears.

pacifiableadjective (a.) Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.

pacificableadjective (a.) Placable.

packagenoun (n.) Act or process of packing.
 noun (n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.
 noun (n.) A charge made for packing goods.
 noun (n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

packhousenoun (n.) Warehouse for storing goods.

padgenoun (n.) The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl.

padronenoun (n.) A patron; a protector.
 noun (n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
 noun (n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

paeoninenoun (n.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

pagenoun (n.) A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
 noun (n.) A boy child.
 noun (n.) A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
 noun (n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
 noun (n.) One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
 noun (n.) Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
 noun (n.) The type set up for printing a page.
 verb (v. t.) To attend (one) as a page.
 verb (v. t.) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

pagoditenoun (n.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

pahoehoenoun (n.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.

paiglenoun (n.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.

paillassenoun (n.) An under bed or mattress of straw.

painableadjective (a.) Causing pain; painful.

paisenoun (n.) See Poise.

palacenoun (n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.
 noun (n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.
 noun (n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.

palaeotypenoun (n.) A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.

palamedeaenoun (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

palamporenoun (n.) See Palempore.

palatableadjective (a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

palatenoun (n.) The roof of the mouth.
 noun (n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
 noun (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
 verb (v. t.) To perceive by the taste.

palatinatenoun (n.) The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.
 verb (v. t.) To make a palatinate of.

palatinenoun (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
 noun (n.) The Palatine hill in Rome.
 noun (n.) A palatine bone.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate.

palativeadjective (a.) Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

palenoun (n.) Paleness; pallor.
 noun (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
 noun (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
 noun (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
 noun (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.
 noun (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
 noun (n.) A cheese scoop.
 noun (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
 verb (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
 verb (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
 verb (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
 verb (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
 verb (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

palefacenoun (n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

palemporenoun (n.) A superior kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings.

palenquenoun (n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

paleotherenoun (n.) Any species of Paleotherium.

paleotypenoun (n.) See Palaeotype.

palesienoun (n.) Alt. of Palesy

palettenoun (n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.
 noun (n.) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
 noun (n.) A breastplate for a breast drill.

palgravenoun (n.) See Palsgrave.

palindromenoun (n.) A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

palinodenoun (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
 noun (n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.

palisadenoun (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
 noun (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
 noun (n.) A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
 verb (v. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

palkeenoun (n.) A palanquin.

palliassenoun (n.) See Paillasse.

palliateadjective (a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
 adjective (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
 verb (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

palliativenoun (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
 adjective (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

palliobranchiateadjective (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.

pallonenoun (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

palmacitenoun (n.) A fossil palm.

palmatenoun (n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Palmated

palmettenoun (n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

palmigradeadjective (a.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.

palmitatenoun (n.) A salt of palmitic acid.

palmitenoun (n.) A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.

palmitonenoun (n.) The ketone of palmitic acid.

palpableadjective (a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
 adjective (a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.

palprbrateadjective (a.) Having eyelids.

palsgravenoun (n.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

palsgravinenoun (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

palstavenoun (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.

paludicolaenoun (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

paludicoleadjective (a.) Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolae

paludineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh.

paludoseadjective (a.) Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

palulenoun (n.) See Palulus or Palus.

palustrineadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

pamprenoun (n.) An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

panabasenoun (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

panachenoun (n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

panadenoun (n.) Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.
 noun (n.) A dagger.

pancakenoun (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

pancartenoun (n.) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

pancenoun (n.) The pansy.

panderagenoun (n.) The act of pandering.

pandermitenoun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.

pandorenoun (n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.

pandurateadjective (a.) Alt. of Panduriform

panenoun (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
 noun (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
 noun (n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
 noun (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
 noun (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
 noun (n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
 noun (n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
 noun (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

paniclenoun (n.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

paniculateadjective (a.) Alt. of Paniculated

pannadenoun (n.) The curvet of a horse.

pannagenoun (n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.
 noun (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

pannoseadjective (a.) Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

pantablenoun (n.) See Pantofle.

pantascopenoun (n.) A pantascopic camera.

pantherineadjective (a.) Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.

pantilenoun (n.) A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/).

pantoflenoun (n.) A slipper for the foot.

pantomimenoun (n.) A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.
 noun (n.) One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist.
 noun (n.) A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally.
 noun (n.) A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.
 adjective (a.) Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.

papabotenoun (n.) The upland plover.

papaverinenoun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

papenoun (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.

papillateadjective (a.) Same as Papillose.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To cover with papillae; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillae.

papilloseadjective (a.) Covered with, or bearing, papillae; resembling papillae; papillate; papillar; papillary.

papillotenoun (n.) a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

papillulateadjective (a.) Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

papoosenoun (n.) A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.

pappoosenoun (n.) Same as Papoose.

papposeadjective (a.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.

papulenoun (n.) Same as Papula.

papuloseadjective (a.) Having papulae; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.