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Pot-Au-Feu
- noun - traditional French stew of vegetables and beef
Potlatches
- noun - a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment)
Precarious
- adjective - affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
- fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
- not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"
- Not securely held in position. Uncertain, dependent on chance
Precaution
- noun - a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down"
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- the trait of practicing caution in advance
Predaceous
- adjective - hunting and killing other animals for food
- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
Predacious
- adjective - hunting and killing other animals for food
- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
Predations
- noun - an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
Prelatical
- - Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority.
Prelatures
- noun - prelates collectively
- the office or station of a prelate