(philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.
(rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
appair
appair
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become impaired; to grow worse.
(transitive, obsolete) To make worse; to injure or damage.
aprile
arispe
armpit
armpit
noun
Somewhere or something considered unpleasant or undesirable.
The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
aspire
aspire
verb
(intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
(intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall.
(transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
capric
capric
adj
Of, pertaining to, or derived from capric acid
caprid
caprid
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to the subfamily Caprinae of ruminants, of which the goat (genus Capra) is the type.
noun
(zoology) Any member of the subfamily Caprinae.
caprin
caprin
noun
(organic chemistry) The triglyceride of capric acid; a constituent of butterfat
capris
capris
noun
capri pants
carpid
carpio
crispa
cypria
depair
diaper
diaper
noun
(Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
verb
Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
To put diapers on someone.
diapir
diapir
noun
(geology) An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden.
dispar
empair
empair
verb
(obsolete) To match, pair up, or combine.
Obsolete form of impair.
epeira
epitra
hairup
harpin
harpin
noun
(biochemistry) A plant protein produced as a defensive response to a pathogen
impair
impair
adj
(obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
impark
impark
verb
(transitive) To enclose or confine in, or as if in, a park.
(transitive) To enclose or fence in (land) to make a park.
imparl
imparl
verb
(law) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.
(obsolete) To hold discourse; to parley.
impart
impart
verb
(intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
(transitive) To give a part or to share.
(transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).
(transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
(transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
intrap
intrap
verb
Archaic spelling of entrap.
inwrap
inwrap
verb
Alternative form of enwrap
jaipur
jaipur
Proper noun
The state capital of Rajasthan (India).
kippar
kirpan
kirpan
noun
(Sikhism) A ceremonial sword that must be worn at all times by baptized Sikhs, and one of the five Ks.
napier
napier
Proper noun
for someone who sold table linen, or was in charge of the linen of a great house.
Scottish mathematician etc
name transferred from the surname.
A city in New Zealand.
A village in Western Cape, South Africa.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
pahari
pahari
Noun
In South Asia, someone from the hills, a hill-man; specifically a member of any of various peoples living in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal.
Proper noun
Any of various Indo-European languages spoken by the Paharis, including Nepali; this group of languages or dialects considered as a whole.
Adjective
Pertaining to the Paharis or a Pahari language.
paiker
paired
paired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pair
pairer
pairer
noun
(obsolete) One who impairs.
pairle
palier
pamiri
pamirs
panier
panier
noun
Obsolete form of pannier.
pansir
papier
papyri
papyri
noun
plural of papyrus
pardie
pardie
intj
By God!
pareil
pareil
noun
(obsolete, quaint) An equal.
pariah
pariah
noun
(figurative) A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.
(zoology) Ellipsis of pariah dog: an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts.
Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
parial
parian
parica
parica
noun
A narcotic snuff prepared from the seeds of Anadenanthera peregrina, a South American tree.
paries
paries
noun
(zoology) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
The wall of any cavity in the body.
pariet
parify
parine
paring
paring
noun
A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.
verb
present participle of pare
parish
parish
noun
(US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
verb
(intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
(transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary-marry-merry English.
pariti
parity
parity
noun
(agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.
(computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
(games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
(mathematics, countable) A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.
(mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
(medicine, countable) The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks
(physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
(uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
Resemblance; analogy.
parkin
parkin
noun
(biochemistry) A particular protein, mutations in which are associated with Parkinson's disease.
A traditional soft cake of Northern England, usually made with oatmeal and treacle.
parlia
parlin
parodi
paroli
parrie
parris
parsic
partie
partim
partis
partis
noun
plural of parti
parvis
parvis
noun
A portico surrounding such a space.
An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.
The porch of a church, or the room over it.
passir
patrai
patria
patric
patrin
patrin
noun
Alternative form of patteran
patrix
patrix
noun
A pattern or die used to manufacture a matrix
pavier
pavier
noun
A paver; one who lays pavement.
pavior
pavior
noun
(obsolete) A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs.
A brick or slab used for paving.
A person who lays paving slabs.
peoria
peoria
Proper noun
A particular city in Illinois, used to represent a typical United States city.
Noun
A member of a Native American tribe, historically part of the
pereia
pereia
noun
plural of pereion
persia
phoria
phoria
noun
Synonym of heterophoria
piaroa
picara
picara
noun
A female picaro.
picard
picaro
picaro
noun
Rogue, adventurer.
picary
pickar
piedra
piedra
noun
A hair disease caused by a fungus.
pieria
pieria
Proper noun
A prefecture in north-central Greece.
A province of Roman Syria.
pietra
pilary
pilary
adj
Alternative form of pilar (“relating to hair”)
pillar
pillar
noun
(Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
(architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
(bodybuilding) The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
(figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
Something resembling such a structure.
The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
verb
To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
pinard
pindar
pindar
noun
Alternative form of pinder or pindal ("peanut").
pinjra
piracy
piracy
noun
(nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
(ornithology) Kleptoparasitism.
A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
The operation of an unlicensed radio or television station.
The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
pirali
pirana
pirana
noun
Alternative form of piranha
pirate
pirate
adj
Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
noun
(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
A kind of marble in children's games.
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
verb
(intransitive) To engage in piracy.
(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
(transitive, intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
(transitive, intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
(transitive, intransitive, Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
piraty
piraya
piraya
noun
Archaic form of piranha.
porail
porcia
porina
portia
portia
noun
Thespesia populnea, a flowering plant of the mallow family, found especially in parts of India.
praise
praise
noun
Commendation; favourable representation in words.
Worship.
verb
To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.
praiss
pravit
praxis
praxis
noun
(drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.
(philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Custom or established practice.
The practical application of any branch of learning.
premia
premia
noun
plural of premium
priapi
priapi
noun
plural of priapus
primal
primal
adj
(meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.
Being the first in time or in history.
Of greatest importance; primary.
noun
A primal cut (of meat).
verb
(intransitive) To take part in primal therapy.
primar
primas
prisal
prisca
prolia
pujari
pujari
noun
(Hinduism) Someone who performs a puja, especially a priest in a Hindu temple.
purina
pyuria
pyuria
noun
(medicine, pathology) The presence of pus in the urine.
raphia
raphia
noun
Alternative form of raffia
raphis
rapide
rapido
rapids
rapids
noun
plural of rapid
rapier
rapier
adj
Cutting; employing keen wit.
Extremely sharp.
comparative form of rapey: more rapey
noun
A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless).
rapine
rapine
noun
The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
verb
(transitive) To plunder.
raping
raping
noun
Misspelling of rapping.
Rape (sexual violation).
verb
present participle of rape
rapist
rapist
noun
A person who has committed rape.
raspis
raspis
noun
(obsolete) a raspberry
repaid
repaid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of repay
repair
repair
noun
A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
The act of repairing something.
The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
The result of repairing something.
verb
To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
To transfer oneself to another place.
to pair again
rhapis
riprap
riprap
noun
(chiefly Canada, US) Rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring.
An underwater bank seen as a danger to shipping.
verb
To form a riprap in or upon.
ripsaw
ripsaw
noun
(uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.
(woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
verb
To cut with a ripsaw.
ropani
ropani
noun
(Nepal) A unit of area equal to 5476 square feet or roughly 0.126 acres.
roripa
rupiah
rupiah
noun
The unit of currency in Indonesia.
rupial
rupial
adj
Of or pertaining to rupia.
ruppia
saprin
sippar
sippar
Proper noun
An ancient Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, some 60 km north of Babylon, in what is now Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq.
sirpea
sparid
sparid
noun
Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae
sparti
spirae
spiral
spiral
adj
Helical, like a spiral.
noun
(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
(informal) A helix.
(rail transport) A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
verb
(figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.
(intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
(transitive) To cause something to spiral.
spiran
spiran
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of a class of bicyclic hydrocarbons in which a carbon atom has two single bonds in each of two rings; a form of spiro compound
spirea
spirea
noun
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Astilbe.
Any of the many flowering shrubs of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers.
sprain
sprain
noun
The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining
verb
To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
spuria
spuria
noun
Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution.