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Pyrotic
- - Caustic. See Caustic. -- n. (Med.) A caustic medicine.
Pyrrhic
- adjective - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
- an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
- of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; "pyrrhic dance movements"
- of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; "pyrrhic verses"
- of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"
Pyruvic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also pyroracemic acid) obtained, as a liquid having a pungent odor, by the distillation of racemic acid.
Qiangic
- noun - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan
Quadric
- noun - a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree
Quantic
- noun - a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables
Quartic
- noun - an algebraic equation of the fourth degree
Quintic
- - Of the fifth degree or order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.
Racemic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids.