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Putanism
- - Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Putative
- adjective - purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the putative author of the book"
Pyralids
- noun - usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests
Pyramids
- verb - arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
- enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
- increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base
- use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
Queasier
- adjective - causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
- feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Queasily
- adverb - in a queasy manner; "`Do I have to remove the liver,' the medical student asked queasily"
Ramalina
- noun - shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus
Rapacity
- noun - extreme gluttony
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Ravaging
- verb - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"