| palinode |
a poem whose contents retract something stated in a previous poem. [2 definitions] |
| palisade |
a tall strong fence of pointed stakes. [3 definitions] |
| pall1 |
a heavy cloth covering for a funeral casket, hearse, or tomb. [3 definitions] |
| pall2 |
to become boring or distasteful; cause weariness. |
| palladic |
of or containing tetravalent palladium. |
| Palladium |
a statue of Athena, esp. one placed at the citadel of Troy as divine protection for the city. [2 definitions] |
| palladium |
a chemical element that has forty-six protons in each nucleus and that occurs in pure form as a dense, malleable, corrosion-resistant silver-white solid metal, used esp. as a catalyst and in alloys. (symbol: Pd) |
| palladous |
of or containing divalent palladium. |
| pallbearer |
one of several persons who carry or accompany the casket at a funeral. |
| pallet1 |
a small or temporary bed, or mattress stuffed with straw. |
| pallet2 |
a movable, usu. wooden platform on which freight goods are moved or stored. [2 definitions] |
| palliate |
to lessen the effect of; make less severe, esp. without curing. [2 definitions] |
| palliative |
tending or acting to relieve or palliate. [2 definitions] |
| pallid |
pale or whitened; lacking color. [2 definitions] |
| pallium |
a cloak worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome; himation. [3 definitions] |
| pall-mall |
a popular seventeenth-century game in which a boxwood ball was struck with a mallet in order to drive it through an iron ring at the end of a playing alley. [2 definitions] |
| pallor |
unnatural paleness, esp. of the face. |
| palm1 |
the inner surface of the hand, between the wrist and the base of the fingers. [4 definitions] |
| palm2 |
any of numerous mainly tropical evergreen plants, usu. an unbranched tree having a crown of large divided leaves, or fronds. [3 definitions] |
| palmate |
shaped like a hand with the fingers extended and spread, as various natural forms such as leaves. [2 definitions] |
| palm crab |
a large land-dwelling crab of the South Pacific that feeds on coconuts. |