(obsolete) A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
penthorum
plutonism
plutonism
noun
The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.
plutonium
plutonium
noun
(countable, historical) Alternative form of ploutonion
The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu: a silvery-gray fissile radioactive actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
plutonomy
plutonomy
noun
(sometimes derogatory) The study of the production and distribution of wealth, or a society seen as dominated by such concerns.
pogonatum
portumnus
postnotum
postnotum
noun
The sclerite, posterior to a notum, that bears the phragma
pulmonata
pulmonate
pulmonate
adj
(anatomy) Having lungs or similar organs.
(biology) Of, relating to, or belonging to the gastropod order Pulmonata (slugs and snails).
noun
A gastropod of the order Pulmonata.
stumpnose
stumpnose
noun
(South Africa) Any of several sea breams of the genus Rhabdosargus.
stumptown
uncompact
uncompact
adj
Not compact; incompact.
verb
(transitive) To expand from a compacted state; to uncompress computer data etc.