palestinian
— Noun
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~ a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
Palestinian Arab
— Noun
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~ a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
— Noun
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~ a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas
Palestinian National Authority
— Noun
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~ combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO
Palestinian Hizballah
— Noun
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~ a little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah; responsible for suicide bombings in Israel
palestra
— Noun
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~ a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes
Palestrina
— Noun
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~ Italian composer (1526-1594)
paletiology
— Noun
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~ the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes)
palette
— Noun
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~ one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
palette
— Noun
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~ board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
palette knife
— Noun
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~ a spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints
palette
— Noun
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~ the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
palfrey
— Noun
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~ especially a light saddle horse for a woman
palgrave
— Noun
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~ English poet (1824-1897)
pali
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~ an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism
palilalia
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~ a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated
palimony
— Noun
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~ support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends
palimpsest
— Noun
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~ a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
palindrome
— Noun
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~ a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
paling
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~ a fence made of upright pickets