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Papescent
- - Containing or producing pap; like pap.
Papillons
- noun - small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat
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.
Paraffins
- noun - (British usage) kerosine
- a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
- from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
Paramount
- adjective - having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"
- Supreme
Parceling
- verb - cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope"
- divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land"
- make into a wrapped container
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
Parchment
- noun - a superior paper resembling sheepskin
- skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on
Pardoning
- verb - accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"
- grant a pardon to; "Ford pardoned Nixon"; "The Thanksgiving turkey was pardoned by the President"
Parenting
- verb - bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
Pargeting
- verb - apply ornamental plaster to
- ornamental plastering
- ornamental plasterwork
- plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys