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Punic War
- noun - one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC
Pushcarts
- noun - wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries"
Pushchair
- noun - a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
Putschist
- unknown - A person involved in a putsch
Pyracanth
- noun - any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
Pyrectics
- noun - any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature
Pyroclast
- unknown - A piece of debris ejected from a volcano.
Pyx Chest
- noun - a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
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"
Quercitin
- - A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as in apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.