| APPROVALS | • approvals n. Plural of approval. • APPROVAL n. the act of approving. |
| PALSGRAVE | • palsgrave n. (Historical) A count palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire, possessing near-royal powers within his county. • PALSGRAVE n. (Dutch) a count palatine. |
| PALSTAVES | • palstaves n. Plural of palstave. • PALSTAVE n. (Dutch) a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age, also PALSTAFF. |
| PARASCEVE | • parasceve n. Alternative form of Parasceve. • Parasceve n. (Christianity) The day of preparation before the (Jewish) Sabbath; Friday. • PARASCEVE n. among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath. |
| PARAVANES | • paravanes n. Plural of paravane. • PARAVANE n. an underwater device used to cut cables. |
| PARAVANTS | • PARAVANT n. a preeminent person or thing. |
| PASSIVATE | • passivate v. (Chemistry) to reduce the chemical reactivity of a surface by applying a coating. • PASSIVATE v. to coat metal with oxides to protect from corrosion. |
| PIASSAVAS | • piassavas n. Plural of piassava. • PIASSAVA n. (Tupi) a coarse, stiff fibre, also PIASABA, PIASAVA, PIASSABA. |
| POSTCAVAE | • postcavae n. Plural of postcava. • POSTCAVA n. (Latin) a vein in higher vertebrates. |
| POSTCAVAL | • postcaval adj. (Anatomy) Posterior to the vena cava. • postcaval n. (Anatomy) A postcaval vein. • POSTCAVAL adj. relating to the postcava, the inferior vena cava. |
| POSTCAVAS | • POSTCAVA n. (Latin) a vein in higher vertebrates. |
| PRECAVALS | • precavals n. Plural of precaval. • PRECAVAL n. the superior vena cava, also PRECAVA. |
| UPHEAVALS | • upheavals n. Plural of upheaval. • UPHEAVAL n. the act of upheaving. |
| VAMPLATES | • vamplates n. Plural of vamplate. • VAMPLATE n. a hand guard. |
| VANASPATI | • vanaspati n. (Botany) Any plant that bears fruits but no evident flowers. • Vanaspati prop.n. (Music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the fourth melakarta rāgam of the 72 melakarta rāgams… • VANASPATI n. (Sanskrit) a hydrogenated vegetable fat used as a butter substitute. |
| VAPULATES | • vapulates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vapulate. • VAPULATE v. to flog; to be flogged. |
| VASOSPASM | • vasospasm n. Spasm of the blood vessels, leading to vasoconstriction and potentially tissue ischemia and necrosis. • VASOSPASM n. a sharp and often persistent spasm of a blood vessel resulting in reduced caliber and flow. |
| VIPASSANA | • vipassana n. (Buddhism) Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence… • VIPASSANA n. (Sanskrit) meditative practice in Buddhism, aimed at obtaining a true metaphysical picture of reality, which means dissolving the stable categories of substance and self in favour of the evanescent. |
| WAVESHAPE | • waveshape n. The shape of a waveform. • WAVESHAPE n. a graph showing the variation in amplitude of any signal propagated as a wave. |