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Paperlike
- adjective - of or like paper
Papermill
- unknown - A facility where paper is made from pulp
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
Paranoiac
- noun - a person afflicted with paranoia
Paranoids
- noun - a person afflicted with paranoia
Parasails
- noun - parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car
Parathion
- noun - a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide
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"