panorama |
a full, wide view of an extensive area. [3 definitions] |
panoramic |
allowing or presenting a wide unbroken view of landscape and the like. |
panpipe |
a primitive musical instrument made of a series of reeds or pipes of graduated lengths bound together, that is played by blowing across the open uppermost ends. |
pansophism |
a claim or pretension to universal wisdom or knowledge. |
pansy |
a garden plant, related to the violet, that has flat, rounded, velvety flowers of various intense colors, or the flower of this plant. |
pant |
to breathe in rapid short gasps, as after hard exercise. [5 definitions] |
Pantagruel |
in the sixteenth-century French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, a giant, good-natured, drunken jokester. |
pantalets |
long women's drawers with ruffles along the lower edge of each leg. |
pantaloons |
men's tightfitting trousers secured by straps under the insteps, worn esp. in the nineteenth century. |
pantheism |
the religious or philosophical doctrine that God is in all things and all things are part of God. |
pantheon |
a temple dedicated to all of a people's gods. [4 definitions] |
panther |
a leopard, esp. a black one with no spots. [2 definitions] |
panties |
brief underpants for women or children. |
pantile |
a curved roofing tile laid so the down curve of one tile overlaps with the up curve of the one beside it. |
panto- |
all. |
pantograph |
a jointed mechanical device in the shape of a parallelogram with styluses that enables one to create copies of drawings, diagrams, maps, and the like to any desired scale. |
pantomime |
a type of theatrical performance in which stories, meanings, or emotions are expressed by gestures, movements, and facial expressions, usu. without speech; mime. [5 definitions] |
pantothenic acid |
an organic acid considered to be part of the vitamin B complex, present in most animal and plant tissues and vital for cell growth. |
pantry |
a small room, usu. adjoining a kitchen, where kitchen and table supplies and food are kept. [2 definitions] |
pants |
an outer garment that covers the area below the waist, reaching any of various lengths down to the feet, and covering each leg separately; trousers. [2 definitions] |
pants suit |
variant of pantsuit. |