| LAPBOARD | • lapboard n. A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk. • LAPBOARD n. a board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors. |
| OPERABLE | • operable adj. Able to be operated or used. • operable adj. Able to be put into operation; practicable. • operable adj. Able to be treated by surgery. |
| OPERABLY | • operably adv. (Medicine) Such that it allows an operation to take place. • OPERABLE adv. that can be operated. |
| PANBROIL | • panbroil v. (Cooking, transitive) To broil in a pan. • pan-broil v. (US) To cook over direct heat in an ungreased skillet. • PANBROIL v. to fry in a pan with little or no fat. |
| PARABOLA | • parabola n. (Geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent… • parabola n. (Rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially… • PARABOLA n. (Greek) a type of curve, one of the conic sections. |
| PARABOLE | • parabole n. (Rhetoric) similitude; comparison. • PARABOLE n. a rhetorical comparison. |
| PARBOILS | • parboils v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parboil. • PARBOIL v. to cook partially by boiling for a short time. |
| PORTABLE | • portable adj. Able to be carried or easily moved. • portable adj. Able to be transferred from one organization to another. • portable adj. (Computing) Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems. |
| PORTABLY | • portably adv. In a portable manner. • PORTABLY adv. so as to be capable of being carried. |
| POURABLE | • pourable adj. Able to be poured. • pourable adj. Liquid, with viscosity allowing to be poured, or solid with particles not strongly adhering to each… • pourable n. Any substance that can be poured. |
| PROBABLE | • probable adj. Likely or most likely to be true. • probable adj. Likely to happen. • probable adj. Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating. |
| PROBABLY | • probably adv. In all likelihood. • PROBABLE adv. likely to occur or prove true. |
| PROLABOR | • PROLABOR adj. favouring organized labor, also PROLABOUR. |
| PROVABLE | • provable adj. Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven. • PROVABLE adj. that can be proved, also PROVEABLE. |
| PROVABLY | • provably adv. With proof; in a provable manner. • PROVABLE adv. that can be proved, also PROVEABLE. |
| ROPEABLE | • ropeable adj. Able to be roped and so restrained. • ropeable adj. (Australia, New Zealand) Angry to the point of needing to be restrained from violent action. • ROPEABLE adj. that can be roped, also ROPABLE. |
| SUBPOLAR | • subpolar adj. Situated below the poles. • SUBPOLAR adj. situated just outside the polar circles. |