10-letter words starting with pa
- paper gold — special drawing rights.
- paper loss — an investment loss which has occurred but not yet been realized
- paper mill — factory where paper is made
- paper over — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- paper shop — A paper shop is a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, and also things such as tobacco, sweets, and cards.
- paper tape — a narrow strip of paper in which holes are punched in designated patterns to represent characters: formerly in common use as an input/output medium.
- paper wasp — any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance consisting of chewed plant material.
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paper-thin — extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
- paperboard — a thick, stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together.
- paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- papermaker — a person or thing that makes paper.
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- papiamento — a creolized language based on Spanish and spoken on Curaçao.
- papillated — having papillae
- papillitis — the inflammation of a papilla
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- papulation — the formation or development of papules
- papyrology — the study of papyrus manuscripts.
- parabiosis — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- parabiotic — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- parade bed — a royal bed from which levees were held.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paradisaic — paradisiacal.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paradisiac — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paradoctor — a doctor who parachutes to patients in remote areas.
- paradoxure — any of a number of palm civet species
- paraenesis — advice
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
- paraffinic — of, noting, or characteristic of paraffin wax or a paraffin hydrocarbon.
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- paraglossa — the outer lobe of the lingua or labium of certain insects
- paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
- paragonite — a mica, similar in composition and appearance to muscovite but containing sodium instead of potassium.
- paraguayan — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- parakiting — parasailing.
- paralation — PARALlel reLATION. Sabot, MIT 1987. A framework for parallel programming. A "field" is an array of objects, placed at different sites. A paralation is a group of fields, defining nearness between field elements. Operations can be performed in parallel on every site of a paralation.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- paralipsis — the suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in “not to mention other faults.”.
- parallaxis — (language) A procedural programming language developed by Thomas Braeunl <[email protected]> at the University of Stuttgart. It is based on Modula-2, but extended for data parallel (SIMD) programming. The main approach for machine independent parallel programming is to include a description of the virtual parallel machine with each parallel algorithm. There is a simulator and X Window System-based profiler for workstations, Macintosh, and IBM PC. Version 2.0 runs on MP-1, CM-2, Sun-3, Sun-4, DECstation, HP 700, RS/6000.
- parallel c — 1. (language, parallel) Never implemented, but influenced the design of C*. [Details?] 2. C for the transputer by 3L. 3. (PC) Extensions to C developed at the University of Houston providing a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. E-mail: Ridgway Scott <[email protected]>.