| APPROACHES | • approaches n. Movements to gain favour; advances. • approaches n. (Military) The covered roads, trenches, or other works made by besiegers or soldiers in their advances… • approaches n. Plural of approach. |
| PARAGRAPHS | • paragraphs n. Plural of paragraph. • PARAGRAPH v. to split up into paragraphs. |
| PARAMORPHS | • paramorphs n. Plural of paramorph. • PARAMORPH n. a pseudomorph formed by a change in molecular structure without change of chemical composition. |
| PARANYMPHS | • paranymphs n. Plural of paranymph. • PARANYMPH n. (historical) a best man or bridesmaid. |
| PARAPHASIA | • paraphasia n. (Pathology) A symptom of aphasia in which the sufferer substitutes a spoken word different from the one intended. • PARAPHASIA n. a disorder in which one word substituted for another. |
| PARAPHASIC | • paraphasic adj. Relating to paraphasia. • PARAPHASIC adj. of or like paraphasia, a disorder in which one word substituted for another. |
| PARAPHRASE | • paraphrase n. A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning. • paraphrase n. (Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise. • paraphrase v. (Transitive, intransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. |
| PARAPHRAST | • paraphrast n. (Rare) someone who paraphrases. • PARAPHRAST n. a paraphraser. |
| PARAPHYSES | • paraphyses n. Plural of paraphysis. • PARAPHYSIS n. a sterile filament or hair borne among the sporangia. |
| PARAPHYSIS | • paraphysis n. (Botany) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the… • paraphysis n. (Mycology) A type of sterile cell amongst the spore-bearing asci. • paraphysis n. (Anatomy) A derivative of the roof-plate of the telencephalon. |
| PARHYPATES | • parhypates n. Plural of parhypate. • PARHYPATE n. (Greek) in Greek music, the lowest note but one in a tetrachord. |
| PASIGRAPHY | • pasigraphy n. (Linguistics) A writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic… • PASIGRAPHY n. a system of universal ideographic writing. |
| PHALAROPES | • phalaropes n. Plural of phalarope. • PHALAROPE n. a small sandpiper-like shore bird. |
| SCRAPHEAPS | • scrapheaps n. Plural of scrapheap. • scrap-heaps n. Plural of scrap-heap. • scrap␣heaps n. Plural of scrap heap. |