Words starting with pr

Words and definitions

Prigidity means: The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.

Prigidity means: Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.

Prigidity means: Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.

Praam means: A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

Practic means: Practical.

Practic means: Artful; deceitful; skillful.

Practicability means: The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

Practicable means: That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Practicable means: Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road.

Practical means: Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.