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8,597 words match “ELL”

PELLIBRANCHIATA n.
A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.
PELLICLE n. 2 definitions
A thin skin or film.
PELLICULAR a.
Of or pertaining to a pellicle. Henslow.
PELLILE n.
The redshank; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]
PELLITORY n. 3 definitions
s of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.
PELLMELL adv.
In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell." Milton.
PELLUCID a.
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. "Pellucid crystal." Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams." Wordsworth.
PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS n.
The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
PELLUCIDLY adv.
In a pellucid manner.
PENNONCEL; PENNONCELLE n.
See Pencel.
PERDUELLION n.
Treason.
PERICELLULAR a.
Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.
PERIVITELLINE a.
Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.
PEWFELLOW n. 2 definitions
One who occupies the same pew with another.
PHACELLUS n.
One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.
PHELLODERM n.
A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.
PHELLOGEN n.
The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
PHELLOPLASTICS n.
Art of modeling in cork.
PHILHELLENE n.
A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist. Emerson.
PHILHELLENIC a.
Of or pertaining to philhellenism.
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