Matching Words
157 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Pahlavi
- noun - Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980)
- the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
- the script (derived from the Aramaic alphabet) used to write the Pahlavi language
Pahlevi
- noun - Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980)
Passive
- adjective - expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
- lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
- peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
- the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
Paul VI
- noun - Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978)
Pavlova
- noun - a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream
- Russian ballerina (1882-1931)
Peccavi
- - I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense; -- used rarely, superseded by the approximate equivalent mea culpa.
Pehlevi
- noun - the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
Pensive
- adjective - deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
- showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
Pius VI
- noun - Italian pope from 1775 to 1799 who served during the French Revolution; Napoleon attacked the Papal States and in 1797 Pius VI was taken to France where he died (1717-1799)