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Pyralid
- noun - usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests
Pyramid
- noun - (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases
- a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt
- a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
- arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
- enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
- increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base
- use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
Pythiad
- - The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next.
Quacked
- verb - act as a medical quack or a charlatan
- utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
Quaffed
- verb - to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"
Quailed
- verb - draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- Shook
Quashed
- verb - declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
- put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
Queened
- verb - become a queen; "her pawn queened"
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
Queered
- verb - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Quelled
- verb - overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
- subdued or overcome; "the quelled rebellion"; "an uprising quenched almost before it started"; "a squelched rumor"
- suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"