English to English Dictionary

Pulk

A small, low-slung, boat-shaped sledge used in Scandinavia and polar regions for transporting goods, equipment, or children over snow.

Pulsion

A drive or instinctive urge that propels someone to action, particularly in psychoanalytic theory.

Purim

A joyous Jewish festival commemorating the deliverance of the Jews from Haman's plot to annihilate them, as recorded in the Book of Esther.

Pustulate

Having pustules or blister-like elevations; covered with small bumps or swellings.

Pygarg

An antelope with a white rump, often identified with the addax or a similar desert-dwelling hoofed mammal.

paramour

A illicit lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person.

paraphilia

A condition characterized by obsessive sexual desire and arousal focused on unusual objects, situations, or individuals.

parsimony

Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources; frugality.

persistent homology

A method for computing topological features of spaces at different spatial resolutions, tracking which features appear and disappear across a range of scales.

perspicacious

Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

pugnacious

Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.