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  • pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
  • pasionaria — La (la), real name Dolores Ibarruri. 1895–1989, Spanish Communist leader, who lived in exile in the Soviet Union (1939–75)
  • paso doble — a quick, light march often played at bullfights.
  • pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
  • pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
  • pass point — a point located photogrammetrically and used as a reference point in orienting other photographs.
  • pass water — to urinate
  • passageway — a way for passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, catwalk, or the like.
  • passamezzo — an Italian dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to the pavane
  • passerby's — a person passing by.
  • passerbyes — a person passing by.
  • passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
  • passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
  • passionary — passional (def 3).
  • passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • passionist — a member of the “Congregation of Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” founded in 1720 and engaged chiefly in missionary work.
  • passivists — the quality of being passive.
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • past tense — grammar: verb tense of past actions or states
  • paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
  • pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
  • pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
  • pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
  • pastry bag — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • pastry mix — a product that can be mixed with water to make pastry
  • pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
  • pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
  • pentastyle — having five columns.
  • periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
  • periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • peroxidase — any of a class of oxidoreductase enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide or an organic peroxide.
  • persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
  • phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
  • phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
  • phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
  • phenoplast — phenolic resin.
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