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- English Word Pentecostals Definition Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
- English Word Pentecoster Definition An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
- English Word Pentecosties Definition of Pentecosty
- English Word Pentecosty Definition A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.
- English Word Pentelic Definition Alt. of Pentelican
- English Word Pentelican Definition Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.
- English Word Pentene Definition Same as Amylene.
- English Word Penthouse Definition A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.
- English Word Penthouse Definition Leaning; overhanging.
- English Word Pentice Definition A penthouse.
- English Word Pentile Definition See Pantile.
- English Word Pentine Definition An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as Valerylene.
- English Word Pentoic Definition Pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also valeric acid) derived from pentane.
- English Word Pentone Definition Same as Valylene.
- English Word Pentoxide Definition An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.
- English Word Pentremite Definition Any species of Pentremites.
- English Word Pentremites Definition A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
- English Word Pentroof Definition See Lean-to.
- English Word Pentrough Definition A penstock.
- English Word Pentyl Definition The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl.