paleolandscapes
plural of paleolandscape

paleomap
A map of an ancient landscape

paleomaps
plural of paleomap

paleotype
Alternative form of palaeotype.

paleotypes
plural of paleotype

palistrophe
chiasmus

palistrophes
plural of palistrophe

palliard
A beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one; (earlier especially) a lecher.

palliards
plural of palliard

palmares
The record of someone's sporting achievements.

palmomancy
Divination of involuntary movements of the body such as tics.

palochka
A Cyrillic letter used in writing several Caucasian languages.

palochkas
plural of palochka

palpography
A graphical form of palpation using ultrasound

pamudpod
Synonym of virama.

panam
Alternative form of fanam (“obsolete currency of India”).

panams
plural of panam

pancration
Alternative form of pankration.

pancreatogram
An image produced by pancreatography

pancreatograms
plural of pancreatogram

pandasona
A fursona that is a panda.

pandasonas
plural of pandasona

pangeni
Alternative spelling of panguingue.

panguingue
A 19th-century gambling card game resembling rummy, probably of Philippine origin, and usually played with eight decks of cards.

pankration
An Ancient Greek martial art combining aspects of boxing and wrestling, introduced in the Greek Olympic games in 648 BC.

panotype
A picture made by the collodion process.

panotypes
plural of panotype

papare
A lively genre of music from Sri Lanka.

parachurch
A Christian organization that engages in social welfare and evangelism without restricting itself to a specific religious denomination.

parachurches
plural of parachurch

paraclausithyron
A motif in classical love poetry, the lament of a shut-out lover.

paraclausithyrons
plural of paraclausithyron

paracrostic
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.

paracrostics
plural of paracrostic

paradelle
A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed pattern.

paradelles
plural of paradelle

paragram
A play on words; a pun.

paragramme
Alternative form of paragram.

paragrammes
plural of paragramme

paragrams
plural of paragram

paragraphism
The writing of paragraphs, especially (dated) the writing of sensational or tawdry short pieces in a newspaper.

parajudo
A disability-adapted form of judo

parakeetitis
The excessive admiration of, and tendency to be easily distracted by, the visually appealing components of a board game (especially a Eurogame).

paraklausithyron
Alternative spelling of paraclausithyron.

paralect
An idiolect that closely approximates the dominant or most prestigious language form, but differs slightly, reflecting the speaker's original dialect, especially as regards to accent.

paralects
plural of paralect

paralexicon
A parallel set of vocabulary within a language, e.g. a formal register, ritual language or secret cant, code switching

paralogics
The study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.

paraloph
A crest attaching the paracone to the protocone or the median mure.

paralophs
plural of paraloph

paramese
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lowest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth below the nete, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.

paranete
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched higher than the trite and lower than the nete.

paranthelia
plural of paranthelion

paranthelion
A diffuse whitish image of the Sun, having the same altitude, at an angular distance of about 120° due to reflection from atmospheric ice-prisms.

parapornography
Literary work that is about sex or eroticism.
Popularizations of parapsychology that lack any scientific merit.

parapraxes
plural of parapraxis

parapraxis
A mistake, such as a slip of the tongue, that reveals a concealed thought or motive.

parataekwondo
An adaptation of the sport of taekwondo for athletes with a physical disability.

paratitla
Synonym of paratitles.

paratitles
Text that summarizes a code of laws.

paraventral
Any of the longitudinal rows of dorsal scales that contact the ventral scales in a snake.

paraventrals
plural of paraventral

parchesi
Alternative form of pachisi.

parchisi
Alternative form of pachisi.

parentage
The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
The social quality of one's class in society.
Origin; derivation.

parentages
plural of parentage

parhypate
In Ancient Greek musical theory, the lower-pitched of the two movable notes in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, pitched lower than the lichanos and higher than the hypate.

parisosis
The arrangement of corresponding clauses of a sentence so that they are of the same length.

parquisite
Obsolete form of perquisite.

parquisites
plural of parquisite

parranda
A Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.

parrotese
The vocalisations of parrots, conceived of as a language.

parryslop
Video games whose combat system heavily involves waiting to be attacked and then parrying, seen as overused and uninspired.

partheniad
A poem in honour of a virgin.

partheniads
plural of partheniad

parthograph
Misspelling of partograph.

parti
The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an architectural design.
Someone (especially a man) who is considered to be a good choice for marriage, because of wealth, status etc.

partibus
A note in the margin of a summons, giving the name and designation of the pursuer.

partibuses
plural of partibus

partis
plural of parti

partogram
A graphical record of key maternal and fetal data during labour, intended to provide a record of progress and highlight any delay or deviation from normal.

partogramme
Alternative form of partogram.

partogrammes
plural of partogramme

partograms
plural of partogram

partograph
Synonym of partogram.

partographs
plural of partograph

parturifacient
A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth.

parturifacients
plural of parturifacient

partwork
A written publication released as a series of pre-planned magazine-like issues over a period of time, distributed through the same channels as magazines.

partworks
plural of partwork

pasang
An abstract strategy board game from Brunei, in which two players compete to capture black and white tokens.

pasigraphies
plural of pasigraphy

pasigraphy
A writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic and uses ideograms, such as mathematical symbols. It is intended to be universally understood.

pasilalies
plural of pasilaly

pasilaly
a universal language

pasillo
A South American genre of music with some of the features of European classical dance.

paspies
plural of paspy

paspy
Alternative form of passepied

passacaglia
A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple meter, and use of a ground bass.
Any piece of classical music with similar characteristics.

passacaglias
plural of passacaglia

passacaille
Alternative form of passacaglia.

passacailles
plural of passacaille

passagework
An ornamental passage in a musical work, often resembling a scale; or the performance of such a passage

passageworks
plural of passagework

passecaille
Alternative form of passacaglia.

passecailles
plural of passecaille

passepied
A courtly dance, in triple time, from 17th-century France; a faster form of the minuet.

passepieds
plural of passepied