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  • overclean — too clean
  • overclear — too clear
  • overcoach — to coach too much
  • overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
  • overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
  • overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
  • overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
  • oversauce — to put too much sauce on
  • overscale — larger or more extensive than normal or usual; outsize; oversize.
  • overteach — to teach too much
  • overwatch — to watch over.
  • packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
  • parecious — paroicous.
  • paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
  • parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • patercove — a fraudulent priest
  • pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
  • pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
  • peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
  • pericopae — a selection or extract from a book.
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
  • post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
  • pothecary — apothecary.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
  • preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
  • preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
  • precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
  • precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
  • proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • procellas — pucellas.
  • procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
  • procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • proctodea — parts of the anus
  • proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
  • provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
  • pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
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