Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Palmiped (n.) A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
(2) - Palmiped (a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl.

(1) - Palmistry (n.) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
(2) - Palmistry (n.) The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.

(1) - Palmitate (n.) A salt of palmitic acid.

(1) - Palmitin (n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.