| APPARENCY | • apparency n. The quality of being apparent; apparentness. • apparency n. (Obsolete) Appearance. • apparency n. The position of being heir apparent. |
| HYPERPNEA | • hyperpnea n. (Medicine) Deep and rapid respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or… • HYPERPNEA n. abnormally fast breathing, also HYPERPNOEA. |
| PANSPERMY | • panspermy n. (Biology) The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances… • panspermy n. (Biology) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis. • PANSPERMY n. the theory that life could be diffused through the universe by means of germs carried by meteorites, also PANSPERMATISM, PANSPERMIA, PANSPERMISM. |
| PARANYMPH | • paranymph n. (Archaic) A friend of the bridegroom; a best man; a bridesmaid. • paranymph n. (Archaic) An ally or spokesman; someone who speaks in support of someone else. • PARANYMPH n. (historical) a best man or bridesmaid. |
| PORCUPINY | • PORCUPINY adj. like a porcupine, a large spiny rodent of various kinds. |
| PORPHYRIN | • porphyrin n. (Organic chemistry) Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing pyrrole rings arranged in a… • PORPHYRIN n. any of a large group of red or purple crystalline pigments present in plant and animal tissues. |
| PREPAYING | • prepaying v. Present participle of prepay. • PREPAY v. to pay in advance. |
| PRETYPING | • pretyping v. Present participle of pretype. • PRETYPE v. to type beforehand. |
| PROPENYLS | • propenyls n. Plural of propenyl. • PROPENYL n. a hydrocarbon radical related to propene. |
| PROPYLENE | • propylene n. (Organic chemistry) The organic chemical compound propene. An alkene which is a colorless gaseous (at… • PROPYLENE n. a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor, also PROPENE. |
| PROPYLONS | • propylons n. Plural of propylon. • PROPYLON n. an entrance to a temple. |
| PYROPHONE | • pyrophone n. (Music) a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by flames of gas in tubes of different length. • PYROPHONE n. an organ producing interference-tones by pairs of flames in tubes. |
| RIPPINGLY | • rippingly adv. (Dated, slang) splendidly; very well. • RIPPING adv. excellent. |