Aramaean :: Aramaean (a.) Alt. of Aramea.

Aramaic :: Aramaic (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee..

Aramaic :: Aramaic (n.) The Aramaic language.

Aramaism :: Aramaism (n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.

Aramean :: Aramean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic..

Aramean :: Aramean (n.) A native of Aram.

Carambola :: Carambola (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry..

Caramel :: Caramel (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc..

Caramel :: Caramel (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor..

Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..

Outparamour :: Outparamour (v. t.) To exceed in the number of mistresses.

Param :: Param (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide.

Paramagnetic :: Paramagnetic (a.) Magnetic, as opposed to diamagnetic..

Paramagnetic :: Paramagnetic (n.) A paramagnetic substance.

Paramagnetism :: Paramagnetism (n.) Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism..

Paramaleic :: Paramaleic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid..

Paramalic :: Paramalic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid..

Paramastoid :: Paramastoid (a.) Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals..

Paramatta :: Paramatta (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino..

Parament :: Parament (n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural..

Paramento :: Paramento (n.) Ornament; decoration.

Paramere :: Paramere (n.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish..

Parameter :: Parameter (n.) A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family..

Parameter :: Parameter (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate..

Parameter :: Parameter (n.) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species..

Parametritis :: Parametritis (n.) Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.

Paramiographer :: Paramiographer (n.) A collector or writer of proverbs.

Paramitome :: Paramitome (n.) The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.

Paramo :: Paramo (n.) A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America..

Paramorph :: Paramorph (n.) A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite..

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