| Pentecost |
a Christian festival on the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles of Jesus Christ. [2 definitions] |
| Pentecostal |
of or pertaining to Pentecost. [2 definitions] |
| penthouse |
an apartment or other dwelling situated on the top floor or roof of a usu. tall building. [3 definitions] |
| pentode |
a vacuum tube containing five electrodes that is used as a voltage amplifier. |
| pentose |
any of several monosaccharides, such as ribose, that have five oxygen atoms in the molecule. |
| pent-up |
held in; not released or expressed; confined. |
| pentyl |
see "amyl." |
| penuche |
a candy, cooked much like fudge, that is made of brown sugar, butter, milk, and nuts. |
| penult |
the syllable that is next to the last syllable in a word. [2 definitions] |
| penultima |
see penult. |
| penultimate |
the next to the last. [2 definitions] |
| penumbra |
the partially lighted shadow that surrounds the complete shadow of an opaque body such as the moon during an eclipse. (Cf. umbra.) [3 definitions] |
| penurious |
extremely needy or poor; poverty-stricken. [3 definitions] |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. [2 definitions] |
| Penzance |
a seaport town in the southwest corner of England and the setting of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. |
| peon |
an unskilled, usu. agricultural worker in Latin America or the southwestern United States. [2 definitions] |
| peonage |
the state or condition of being a peon. [2 definitions] |
| peony |
any of various garden plants that bear large pink, red, or white flowers. [2 definitions] |
| people |
human beings; persons. [7 definitions] |
| peopleless |
combined form of people. |
| people's front |
see "popular front." |