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Papillate
- adjective - resembling or covered with papillae
Papillose
- adjective - of or relating to or resembling papilla
Papillote
- - A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.
Par Value
- noun - the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value
Parachute
- noun - jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
Paraclete
- noun - the third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost
Paraffine
- - A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.
Paragrele
- - A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms.
Parasceve
- - Among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath.