Nouns in english starting with P

• para aminobenzoic acid — Noun – English ～ a metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs and sun blockers
• para — Noun – English ～ (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
• para I — Noun – English ～ (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time
• Para — Noun – English ～ port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
• parable — Noun – English ～ a short moral story (often with animal characters)
• parable — Noun – English ～ (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"
• parabola — Noun – English ～ a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
• parabolic mirror — Noun – English ～ a parabolic reflector for light radiation
• parabolic geometry — Noun – English ～ (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms
• paraboloid — Noun – English ～ a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
• paracelsus — Noun – English ～ Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)
• paracentesis — Noun – English ～ centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis
• paracervical block — Noun – English ～ regional anesthesia resulting from the injection of a local anesthetic on each side of the cervix; used during labor and childbirth
• Paracheirodon axelrodi — Noun – English ～ small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia
• Paracheirodon — Noun – English ～ a genus of Characidae
• parachute jumper — Noun – English ～ a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute
• parachute — Noun – English ～ rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
• parachuter — Noun – English ～ a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute
• parachuting — Noun – English ～ descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"
• parachutist — Noun – English ～ a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute

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