Matching Words
656 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Prion
- noun - (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system
- Prion, also called Whalebird, any of several species of small Antarctic seabirds of the genus Pachyptila, in the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes).
Proin
- - To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.
Pugin
- noun - English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852)
Pusan
- noun - a city in southeastern South Korea on the Korean Strait; the chief port and second largest city
Putin
- noun - Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000; formerly director of the Federal Security Bureau (born in 1952)
Pylon
- noun - a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines; "power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists"
- a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
Quean
- - A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Queen
- noun - (chess) the most powerful piece
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- become a queen; "her pawn queened"
- female cat
- offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
Quern
- noun - a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand