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- pass mark — the minimum mark required to pass an examination
- pass over — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pass rush — an attempt by the defense to prevent the quarterback from throwing successfully to a receiver.
- pass-fail — a system of grading in some educational institutions in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a letter or numerical grade.
- passalong — the act of giving or conveying something to another person for additional use: Readership passalong means that three people read every copy of the magazine.
- passament — passement.
- passement — a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.
- passenger — a person who is traveling in an automobile, bus, train, airplane, or other conveyance, especially one who is not the driver, pilot, or the like.
- passepied — a lively dance in triple meter popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- passer-by — a person passing by.
- passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- passersby — a person passing by.
- passingly — in passing; in a passing manner
- passional — of, relating to, or marked by passion.
- passivate — to treat (a metal) to render the surface less reactive chemically.
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- passivism — the quality of being passive.
- passivist — the quality of being passive.
- passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
- passivize — If you can passivize a verb or clause, or if it can passivize, you can put the verb in the passive voice.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- pasticcio — a pastiche.
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.
- pastiness — the quality of being pasty.
- pastitsio — a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce
- pastorage — pastorate.
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- pastorate — the office or term of office of a pastor.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pastosity — having a heavy impasto.
- pasturage — pasture.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pausanias — flourished a.d. c175, Greek traveler, geographer, and author.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- pearl ash — the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- peasouper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- pen-based — (of a computer) having an electronic stylus rather than a keyboard as the primary input device.
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.