palestinian

an ethnic group of Arabs formerly living in Palestine ; a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine ;

palestinian arab

a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine ;

palestinian hizballah

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 ;

palestinian islamic jihad

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

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 ;

palestra

a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes ;

palestrina

Italian composer (1526-1594) ;

paletiology

the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) ;

palette

board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used ; one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor ; the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art ;

palette knife

a spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints ;

palfrey

especially a light saddle horse for a woman ;

palgrave

English poet (1824-1897) ;

pali

an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism ;

palilalia

a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated ;

palimony

support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends ;

palimpsest

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

a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward ;

paling

a fence made of upright pickets ;

palingenesis

emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species ;

palinuridae

spiny lobsters ;

palinurus

type genus of the family Palinuridae ;

palisade

fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground ;

paliurus

thorny Eurasian shrubs ;

paliurus spina-christi

thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit ;

pall

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) ; burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped ; a sudden numbing dread ;

pall-mall

a 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet ;

pall mall

a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs ;

palladio

highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580) ;

palladium

a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry ;

pallas

a large asteroid; the second asteroid to be discovered ; (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva ;

pallas's cat

small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia ;

pallas's sandgrouse

Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly ;

pallas athena

(Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva ;

pallas athene

(Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva ;

pallasite

a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron ;

pallbearer

one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral ;

pallet

board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used ; a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed ; a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay ; a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it ; the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art ;

pallette

one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor ;

palliasse

mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust ;

palliation

to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious ; easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause ;