passroll
A shot in the game of croquet which consists of moving both the striker ball and the croqueted ball together at about the same distance and possibly having the striker ball move farther than the croqueted ball with the stroke.

passrolls
plural of passroll

passus
A section of a long narrative poem; a canto

passuses
plural of passus

pastorale
A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.
One of the figures of a quadrille.

pastorales
plural of pastorale

pastorali
plural of pastorale

pasuk
A verse of the Torah

pataca
The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos.
A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in Malta in the form of a large coppern coin.
A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958.

patacas
plural of pataca

patach
A vowel point in the Hebrew script appearing as a horizontal line placed below a letter (ִ◌ַ) and designating the open vowel a /a/.

patacoon
Synonym of pataca.

patacoons
plural of patacoon

patakh
Alternative form of patach.

patball
A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.
A back-and-forth situation.
The ball used in the game of patball.
A pawn, a football.

pathetics
Pathetic language or behaviour.
The study of people’s emotions or passions.

pathographies
plural of pathography

pathography
A biography that highlights the negative aspects of its subject's life.
A biography that explores the effects of a disease on its subject's life.

patole
Alternative form of patolli (“ancient board game”).

patolli
A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs.

patrilect
The language or dialect spoken by the patriclan.

patrilects
plural of patrilect

payada
A traditional performance art of the Southern Cone, consisting of a duel between two payadores who take turns singing improvised ten-line verses in response to the previous payador, accompanied by guitar.

payadas
plural of payada

paybook
A booklet listing payments.

paybooks
plural of paybook

payong
A parasol used as a Javanese emblem of rank.

payongs
plural of payong

peanism
Alternative form of paeanism.

peanisms
plural of peanism

pebbleware
variegated pottery made from a mixture of clays of different colours

pediatries
plural of pediatry

pediatry
Alternative spelling of paediatry; alternative form of pediatrics.

pedomancy
Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

peeth
A well (for drawing water).

peeths
plural of peeth

pegomancy
divination by fountains

pelfie
A self-taken photograph of one's pet.

pelfies
plural of pelfie

pelog
One of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java in Indonesia. It has seven notes, of which sometimes only five are used.

pencilslop
Art created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.

peneech
Alternative form of penneech.

penetrometry
The design and use of penetrometers

penge
(typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.

penguinese
The language supposedly used by penguins.

penneech
An old English card game for two players with hands of seven cards, and the trump suit changing with each trick.

penni
A former Finnish currency unit, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of the markka.

pennia
plural of penni

pennis
plural of penni

pentadecathlon
A sporting event consisting of fifteen different sports or contests.
A particular oscillator that returns to its initial state after 15 generations.

pentadecathlons
plural of pentadecathlon

pentadrachm
An ancient Cyrenaic coin that was worth five drachmas.

pentadrachma
Alternative form of pentadrachm.

pentadrachmae
plural of pentadrachma

pentadrachmai
plural of pentadrachma

pentadrachmas
plural of pentadrachma

pentadrachms
plural of pentadrachm

pentalogies
plural of pentalogy

pentalogy
A set of five works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as five individual works.

pentameter
A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.

pentameters
plural of pentameter

pentametre
Alternative form of pentameter.

pentametres
plural of pentametre

pentaquark
Any of a class of subatomic particles (previously hypothetical, since detected, subject to confirmation) consisting of a group of five quarks (compared to three quarks in normal baryons and two in mesons), or more specifically four quarks and one antiquark (symbol Θ).

pentaquarks
plural of pentaquark

pentecontadrachm
An ancient Cyrenaic coin worth fifty drachmas

pentecontadrachms
plural of pentecontadrachm

pentecontalitron
A large gold coin of ancient Sicily worth fifty litras

penult
The next-to-last syllable of a word.
The next to the last in a series.

penultimata
plural of penultimatum

penultimatum
A statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, commonly expressed as an ultimatum in the hopes of compelling immediate compliance with demands, but that then is superseded by more negotiation instead of actual dire consequences.

penultimatums
plural of penultimatum

penults
plural of penult

percapella
A vocal performance that only has percussive accompaniment.

perfin
Perforated initial; a series of small holes punched into a stamp and forming a letter, series of letters or other design for the purpose of preventing the unauthorized use of the stamps.
A stamp marked with perforated initials.

perfins
plural of perfin

peridromophily
The collection of transfers.

periostracum
The proteinaceous outer sheath of many molluscan shells.

peripli
plural of periplus

periploi
plural of periplous
plural of periplus

periplous
Alternative form of periplus.

periplouses
plural of periplous

periplus
An account of a voyage, particularly those of Hanno and Arrian, recording ports and coastal landmarks.
A voyage along a coast.
Synonym of circuit: the path or distance around a coast.
Synonym of circumnavigation: a voyage around an island or the world.

peripluses
plural of periplus

perper
A former currency of Montenegro between 1906 and 1918, divided into 100 para.

perpera
plural of perper

perpers
plural of perper

perquisite
Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
A gratuity.
A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.

perquisites
plural of perquisite

perspectivation
The assignment of a particular perspective to a narrative through the use of language.

perspectivations
plural of perspectivation

perspectivization
Synonym of perspectivation.

perspectivizations
plural of perspectivization

perspectography
The science or art of drawing in perspective.

pesewa
In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi.

pesewas
plural of pesewa

peso
A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.

pesos
plural of peso

pessomancy
Divination using pebbles.

petroculture
A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.

petrodollar
Money (either notionally or specifically in dollars or other currencies) earned from the sale of oil, often especially as considered among a national economy's principal revenue streams.

petrodollars
plural of petrodollar
Money earned through the sale of petroleum.

petroeuro
Money in the euro currency earned from the sale of oil.

petroeuros
plural of petroeuro

petroglyph
A rock carving, especially one made in prehistoric times.

petroglyphs
plural of petroglyph

petrogram
A painting on rock, especially one made in prehistoric times.

petrograms
plural of petrogram

petrograph
Drawing, writing or inscription on stone, as a painting on a cave wall.

petrographs
plural of petrograph