| PARVENUES | • parvenues n. Plural of parvenue. • PARVENUE n. (French) a female parvenu. |
| PULVERINE | • pulverine n. (Dated) ashes of barilla. • PULVERINE n. barilla ash, used in glassmaking, also POLVERINE. |
| PULVERING | • pulvering v. Present participle of pulver. • PULVER v. to reduce to powder. |
| PULVINATE | • pulvinate adj. (Architecture) Curved convexly or swelled. • pulvinate adj. (Zoology) Having the form of a cushion. • PULVINATE adj. cushion-like; bulging; pillowy, also PULVINATED. |
| PULVINULE | • PULVINULE n. the pulvinus of a leaflet. |
| PURVEYING | • purveying v. Present participle of purvey. • PURVEY v. to supply. |
| SUPERNOVA | • supernova n. (Astronomy) The explosion of a star, which increases its absolute magnitude to typically a billion times… • supernova n. (Figurative) Something brilliant. • SUPERNOVA n. (Latin) a very brilliant nova resulting from an explosion which blows the star's material into space, leaving an expanding cloud of gas. |
| SUPERVENE | • supervene v. (Intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast. • supervene v. To supersede. • supervene v. To be dependent on an earlier event. |
| UNPERVERT | • unpervert v. (Transitive) To free from perversion or error. • UNPERVERT v. to free from perversion. |
| UNPROVIDE | • unprovide v. (Transitive) To deprive of necessary provision; to unfurnish. • UNPROVIDE v. (Shakespeare) to deprive of necessary provision. |
| UNPROVOKE | • unprovoke v. To undo or counter a provocation. • UNPROVOKE v. (Shakespeare) to counteract the provocation of. |
| UPHEAVING | • upheaving v. Present participle of upheave. • upheaving n. Upheaval. • UPHEAVE v. to heave up. |
| VULPINITE | • vulpinite n. (Mineralogy) A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish-white colour, used for ornamental purposes. • VULPINITE n. a granular scaly form of the mineral anhydrite. |