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Petitor
- - One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.
Petrary
- - An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
Petrean
- - Of or pertaining to rock.
Petrels
- noun - relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land
Petrify
- verb - cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
Petrine
- - Of or pertaining to St. Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
Petrols
- noun - a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
Petrous
- adjective - (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness
Petters
- noun - a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one; "they are heavy petters"
Pettier
- adjective - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
- inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
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