Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 52
Pharmacopoeia (n.) A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.
Pharmacopoeia (n.) A chemical laboratory. [Obs.] -- Dunglison.
Pharmacopoeia (n.) A collection or stock of drugs.
Pharmacopolist (n.) One who sells medicines; an apothecary.
Pharmacosiderite (n.) (Min.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
Pharmacy (n.) 藥局，藥房，藥店，藥品部；配藥學 The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
Pharmacy (n.) A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
Pharmacy (n.) The art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines, [syn: {pharmacy}, {pharmaceutics}].
Pharmacy (n.) A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold [syn: {drugstore}, {apothecary's shop}, {chemist's}, {chemist's shop}, {pharmacy}].
Pharmaceutic (a.) Alt ience which treats of lighthouses and signal lights.
Pharos (n.) A lighthouse of Pharmaceutical.
Pharmaceutical (a.) Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly, adv.
Pharmaceutical chemistry, That department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances.
Pharmaceutical (a.) Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists; "the pharmaceutical industry" [syn: pharmaceutical, pharmaceutic].
Pharmaceutical (a.) Of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment
Pharmaceutical (n.) Drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment [syn: pharmaceutical, pharmaceutic].
Pharo (n.) A pharos; a lighthouse. [Obs.]
Pharo (n.) See Faro.
Pharology (n.) The art or sc or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
He . . . built a pharos, or lighthouse. -- Arbuthnot.
Pharos (n.) A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships [syn: beacon, lighthouse, beacon light, pharos].
PHAROS. A light-house or beacon. It is derived from Phams, a small island at the mouth of the Nile, on which was built a watch-tower.
Pharyngal (a.) Pharyngeal. -- H. Sweet.
Pharyngeal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx.
Pharyngeal (n.) (Anat.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches.
Pharyngeal (a.) Of or relating to the throat; "pharyngeal fricatives"
Pharyngeal (n.) A consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat [syn: guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant].
Pharyngitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the pharynx.
Pharyngitis (n.) Inflammation of the fauces and pharynx [syn: sore throat, pharyngitis, raw throat].
Pharyngobranchial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiae; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal. -- n. A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.
Pharyngobranchial (n.) A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.
Pharyngobranchii (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Leptocardia.
Pharyngognathi (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.
Pharyngolaryngeal (a.) Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.
Pharyngopneusta (n. pl.) (Zool.)A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. -- Pha*ryn`gop*neus"tal, a.
Pharyngotome (n.) (Surg.) An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.
Pharyngotomy (n.) (Surg.) The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.
Pharyngotomy (n.) (Surg.) Scarification or incision of the tonsils.
Pharynges (n. pl. ) of Pharynx
Pharynx (n.) (Anat.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.
Phascolomidae (pl. n.) 袋熊 A family of stockily built partially fossorial Australian marsupials that comprise the wombats and related extinct forms and have strong five-toed forefeet with digging claws and a very short tail.
Phascolome (n.) (Zool.) 【動物學】袋熊 A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.
Compare: Marsupial
Marsupial (a.) (Zoology)【動】 有袋的；袋狀的；有袋目的 Relating to the marsupials.
‘The homology of the teeth in the marsupial dentition has been controversial and there are several alternate nomenclatures.’
Marsupial (n.) (Zoology)【動】有袋動物 A mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly. Marsupials are found mainly in Australia and New Guinea, although three families, including the opossums, live in America.
Order Marsupialia and infraclass Metatheria, subclass Theria
‘So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.’
Marsupial (a.) (Zool.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
Marsupial (a.) (Anat. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones.
Marsupial frog. (Zool.) See Nototrema.
Marsupial (n..) (Zool.) One of the Marsupialia.
Marsupial (a.) Of or relating to the marsupials; "marsupial animals".
Marsupial (n.) Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried [syn: marsupial, pouched mammal].
Phases (n. pl. ) of Phase
Phase (n.) That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
Phase (n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.
Phase (n.) (Astron.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under {Moon}.
Phase (n.) (Physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
Phase (n.) (Phys. Chem.) A homogenous, physically distinct portion of matter in a system not homogeneous; as, the three phases, ice, water, and aqueous vapor; in a mixture of gasoline and water, the gasoline will settle as the upper phase. A phase may be either a single chemical substance or a mixture, as of gases.
Phase (n.) (Zool.) In certain birds and mammals, one of two or more color variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age. Some of the herons which appear in white and colored phases, and certain squirrels which are sometimes uniformly blackish instead of the usual coloration, furnish examples. Color phases occur also in other animals, notably in butterflies.
Phase (n.) (Physics) The relation at any instant of any cyclically varying physical quantity, such as voltage in an A.C. circuit, an electromagnetic wave, a sound wave, or a rotating object, to its initial value as expressed as a fractional part of the complete cycle. It is usually expressed in angular measure, the complete cycle being 360[deg]. Such periodic variations are generally well represented by sine curves; and phase relations are shown by the relative positions of the crests and hollows of such curves. Magnitudes which have the same phase are said to be in phase.
Note: The concept of phase is also applied generally to any periodically varying phenomenon, as the cycle of daylight. One person who sleeps during the day and another who sleeps at night may be said to be out of phase with each other.
Phase (n.) Specifically: (Elec.) The relation at any instant of a periodically varying electric magnitude, as electro-motive force, a current, etc., to its initial value as expressed in factorial parts of the complete cycle. It is usually expressed in angular measure, the cycle being four right angles, or 360 [deg].
Phasis (n.; pl. Phases.) [NL.] See Phase. -- Creech. Phasm
Phase (v. t.) To disturb the composure of; to disconcert; to nonplus; -- an older spelling, now replaced by {faze}. [Colloq., Archaic]
Syn: faze.
Phase (n.) Any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected" [syn: {phase}, {stage}].
Phase (n.) (Physical chemistry) A distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system" [syn: {phase}, {form}].
Phase (n.) A particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle [syn: {phase}, {phase angle}].
Phase (n.) (Astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"
Phase (v.) Arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal".
Phase (v.) Adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine".
Phase (n.) The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a useful concept among people who often work at night and/ or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6 hours per day on a regular basis. ?What's your phase?? ?I've been getting in about 8PM lately, but I'm going to wrap around to the day schedule by Friday.? A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in night mode. (The term day mode is also (but less frequently) used, meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one's cycle is called changing phase ; phase shifting has also been recently reported from Caltech.
Phase (n.) Change phase the hard way: To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase.
Phase (n.) Change phase the easy way: To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is shortening your day or night that is really hard (see wrap around). The ?jet lag? that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without traveling.
Phase
Day mode
Night mode, () The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6 hours per day on a regular basis. "What's your phase?" "I've been getting in about 8 P.M. lately, but I'm going to wrap around to the day schedule by Friday." A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in "night mode". (The term "day mode" is also (but less frequently) used, meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one's cycle is called "changing phase"; "phase shifting" has also been recently reported from Caltech.
Phase
Day mode
Night mode, ()"change phase the hard way": To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase.
Phase
Day mode
Night mode, () "change phase the easy way": To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is *shortening* your day or night that is really hard (see wrap around). The "jet lag" that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without travelling.
Phasel (n.) The French bean, or kidney bean.
Phaseless (a.) Without a phase, or visible form. [R.] "A phaseless and increasing gloom." -- Poe. Phase meter
Phaseolus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.
Phaseolus (n.) Herbs of warm regions including most American beans [syn: Phaseolus, genus Phaseolus].
Inositol (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A white crystalline substance ({C6H12O6) with a sweet taste, widely distributed in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, and also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Although isomeric with dextrose, it has no carbonyl (aldehyde or ketone) group, and is therefore not a carbohydrate, but a derivative of cyclohexane. Called also inosite, cyclohexitol, cyclohexanehexol, hexahydroxycyclohexane and phaseomannite. There are nine possible steroisomers, not all of which are found naturally.
The predominate natural form is cis-1,2,3,5-trans-4,6-cyclohexanehexol, also called myo-inositol. The naturally occurring phytic acid in plants is the hexaphosphate of inositol, from which inositol may be manufactured; phytin is the calcium-magnesium salt of phytic acid. It is also a component of phosphatidylinositol. -- MI11
Inositol (n.) An optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex.
Phaseomannite (n.) (Chem.) Same as Inosite.
Phases (n. pl. ) of Phasis
Phasis (n.) See Phase. -- Creech. Phasm
Phasm (n.) Alt. of Phasma
Phasma (n.) An apparition; a phantom; an appearance. [R.] -- Hammond. Sir T. Herbert.
Phasmid (n.) Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.
Phassachate (n.) The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.
Phatagin (n.) The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla); -- called also ipi.
Pheasant (n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.
Pheasant (n.) The ruffed grouse.
Pheasantry (n.) A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.
Phebe (n.) See Phoebe.
Pheer (n.) See 1st Fere.
Pheese (v. t.) To comb; also, to beat; to worry.
Pheese (n.) Fretful excitement.
Phelloderm (n.) A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.
Phellogen (n.) The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
Phelloplastics (n.) Art of modeling in cork.
Phenacite (n.) A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.
Phenakistoscope (n.) 費納奇鏡 A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.
Phenanthrene (n.) A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.
Phenanthridine (n.) A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline.
Phenanthroline (n.) Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon bases, C12H8N2, analogous to phenanthridine, but more highly nitrogenized.
Phene (n.) Benzene.
Phenetol (n.) The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5.
Phenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
Phenician (a. & n.) See Phoenician.
Phenicine (n.) A purple powder precipitated when a sulphuric solution of indigo is diluted with water.
Phenicine (n.) A coloring matter produced by the action of a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids on phenylic alcohol.
Phenicious (a.) Of a red color with a slight mixture of gray.
Phenicopter (n.) A flamingo.
Phenixes (n. pl. ) of Phenix
Phenix (n.) (Gr. Myth.) 鳳凰，不死鳥，永生鳥；完人；絕代佳人；絕世珍品 A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.
Phenix (n.) (Astron.) A southern constellation.
Phenix (n.) A marvelous person or thing. [R.] -- Latimer.
Phenix (n.) A person or thing that suffered destruction or defeat and was restored to its former state.
{to rise like a phoenix}, To resume an endeavor after an apparently final defeat.
Phenix, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 200
Housing Units (2000): 94
Land area (2000): 1.153273 sq. miles (2.986964 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.153273 sq. miles (2.986964 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61896
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.080841 N, 78.747183 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23959
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Phenix, VA
Phenix
Phenogamia (n. pl.) Same as Phaenogamia.
Phenogamian (a.) Alt. of Phenogamous
Phenogamic (a.) Alt. of Phenogamous
Phenogamous (a.) Same as Phaenogamian, Phaenogamic, etc.
Phenol (n.) A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar.
Phenol (n.) Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type.
Phenolate (n.) A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
Phenomenal (a.) Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
Phenomenal (a.) Of or relating to a phenomenon; "phenomenal science".
Phenomenal (a.) Exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic. damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenaRl feats of memory".
Phenomenally (adv.) To a phenomenal degree; "his reaction was phenomenally quick".
Phenomenalism (n.) (Metaph.) That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
Phenomenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of phenomenalism.
Phenomenology (n.) A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.
"The phenomenology of the mind." -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Phenomenology (n.) A philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account.
Phenomena (n. pl. ) of Phenomenon
Phenomenon (n.) An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind. -- Stewart.
Phenomenon (n.) That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.
Phenomenon (n.) Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning.
Phenomenon (n.) A remarkable development.
Phenose (n.) A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with, and resembling, dextrose.
Phenyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.
Phenylamine (n.) Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.
Phenylene (n.) A hypothetic radical (C6H4) occurring in certain derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.
Phenylic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, phenyl.
Pheon (n.) A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.
Phial (n.) A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
Phialed (imp. & p. p.) of Phial
Phialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phial
Phial (v. t.) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
Philabeg (n.) See Filibeg.
Philadelphian (a.) Of or pertaining to
Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named
Philadelphian (n.) A native or an
inhabitant of
Philadelphian (n.) One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love.
Philalethist (n.) A lover of the truth.
Philander (v. i.) To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
You can't go philandering after her again. -- G. Eliot.
Philander (n.) A lover. [R.] -- Congreve.