Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Participative (a.) Capable of participating.

(1) - Participator (n.) One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

(1) - Participial (n.) A participial word.
(2) - Participial (a.) Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.

(1) - Participle (a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
(2) - Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.

(1) - Particle (n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.
(2) - Particle (n.) The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.
(3) - Particle (n.) A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.
(4) - Particle (n.) Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.
(5) - Particle (n.) A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.