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Paradox
- noun - (logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
Perplex
- verb - be a mystery or bewildering to;
- make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter"
Perspex
- noun - a transparent thermoplastic acrylic resin
Phalanx
- noun - a body of troops in close array
- any closely ranked crowd of people
- any of the bones of the fingers or toes
Pharynx
- noun - the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
Phoenix
- noun - a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
- a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
- a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years
- the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation
Pillbox
- noun - a small case for holding pills
- a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)
- a small round woman's hat
Pius IX
- noun - Italian pope from 1846 to 1878 who in 1854 declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary
Playbox
- noun - a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school)