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  • phloroglucinol — a white to yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly in analytical chemistry and in the preparation of pharmaceuticals.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • phonoreception — the physiological perception of sound.
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • phosphorescent — exhibiting phosphorescence.
  • phosphorolytic — of or relating to phosphorolysis
  • phosphoroscope — an instrument for measuring the duration of evanescent phosphorescence in different substances.
  • photochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photoelectrode — an electrode that, following the absorption of light, can initialize electrochemical transformations
  • photographical — of or relating to photography.
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • photoreception — the physiological perception of light.
  • photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
  • phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • phytochemistry — the branch of biochemistry dealing with plants and plant processes.
  • piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • plesiochronous — (communications)   Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • polyphosphoric — as in polyphosphoric acid, any oxyacid of pentavalent phosphorus
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • popcorn stitch — a crochet stitch made with a number of loose stitches fastened in a common base so that the yarn puffs up, looking much like a piece of popcorn
  • porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • port charlotte — a town in SW Florida.
  • port nicholson — the first British settlement in New Zealand, established on Wellington Harbour in 1840: grew into Wellington
  • prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • process cheese — a cheese made by heating and blending together several natural cheeses with an emulsifying agent
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • propyl alcohol — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 8 O, used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • prosthodontics — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
  • pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
  • psycho-history — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
  • psychographics — the use of demographics to determine the attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
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