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- English Word Petulance Definition Alt. of Petulancy
- English Word Petulancy Definition The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
- English Word Petulant Definition Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
- English Word Petulant Definition Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
- English Word Petulantly Definition In a petulant manner.
- English Word Petulcity Definition Wantonness; friskiness.
- English Word Petulcous Definition Wanton; frisky; lustful.
- English Word Petunia Definition A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
- English Word Petunse Definition Alt. of Petuntze
- English Word Petuntse Definition Alt. of Petuntze
- English Word Petuntze Definition Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- English Word Petworth marble Definition A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
- English Word Petzite Definition A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
- English Word Peucedanin Definition A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.
- English Word Peucil Definition A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.
- English Word Pew Definition One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.
- English Word Pew Definition Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.
- English Word Pew Definition To furnish with pews.
- English Word Pewee Definition A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.
- English Word Pewee Definition The woodcock.