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Pyorrheas
- noun - chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets
- discharge of pus
Pyorrhoea
- noun - chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets
- discharge of pus
Pyrethrin
- - A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called also Pyrethrum camphor.
Pyrethrum
- noun - made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants
- spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
- used in former classifications for plants later placed in genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum
- white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
Pyrophane
- - A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.
Pyrophone
- - A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.
Pyx Chest
- noun - a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
Queenhood
- - The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.
Quenching
- verb - cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
- electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
- reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
- suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"
Quetching
- verb - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"