Index of English words, starting with "pt"

(1) - Ptisan (n.) An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.
(2) - Ptisan (n.) A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

(1) - Ptolemaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.

(1) - Ptolemaist (n.) One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.

(1) - Ptomaine (n.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.