Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
mayport
palmary
palmary
adj
(anatomy) Palmar.
Principal; chief.
Worthy of the palm; preeminent; superior.
palmery
palmery
noun
A palm tree plantation.
palmyra
palmyra
noun
A palm (Borassus flabellifer) with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
paronym
paronym
noun
(rare) A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word.
(semantics) A word derived from the same root or stem as another word.
primacy
primacy
noun
(archaic) excellence; supremacy.
(religion) The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church
(religion) the office or dignity of an archbishop
The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
primary
primary
adj
(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
first or earliest in a group or series.
main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
noun
(aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
(military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
A primary colour.
A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
A primary school.
The first year of grade school.
The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
verb
(US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
(US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
proarmy
pyramid
pyramid
noun
(UK, dated) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
(card games) The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.
(card games, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game)
(geometry) A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base.
(journalism) An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length.
(neuroanatomy) A medullary pyramid, the medial-most bumps on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata
A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base.
A pyramid scheme.
An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as bases for temples in Mesoamerica.
verb
(finance) To engage in pyramid trading.
(intransitive) To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme.
(transitive, genetics) To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype.
To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid.
pyramus
pyramus
Proper noun
a Babylonian lover in the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe
