English to English Dictionary

Pleiad

A brilliant group of seven notable people or things associated with a specific field or era.

Plorant

In heraldry, depicted as weeping or shedding tears, usually applied to animals or human figures.

Plumate

Resembling or adorned with feathers.

Pluvious

Characterized by or bringing rain; rainy.

Pneudraulic

Relating to or operated by a combination of pneumatic (gas) and hydraulic (liquid) pressure mechanisms.

Podalgia

Pain in the foot, often resulting from injury, inflammation, or neurological conditions.

Polygynist

A man who has more than one wife simultaneously.

Polygynous

Having more than one wife or female mate at one time.

Post-nationalism

The process or trend by which nation-states and national identities lose their importance or influence relative to supranational and global entities.

Potassium cyanide

A highly toxic inorganic salt with the chemical formula KCN, appearing as a white crystalline powder that smells faintly of bitter almonds and is extremely lethal in small doses.

Pott's disease

Tuberculous spondylitis; a form of tuberculosis that occurs outside the lungs, whereby the disease is localized in the vertebrae.

Potter's rot

A chronic occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust, synonymous with silicosis.