English words starting with pn

Meanings of Pneuma:

noun

(in stoic thought) the vital spirit, soul, or creative force of a person.

Usage examples:

In stoic philosophy, the pneuma penetrates all things, holding things together.

Meanings of Pneumas:

noun

(in stoic thought) the vital spirit, soul, or creative force of a person.

Usage examples:

In stoic philosophy, the pneuma penetrates all things, holding things together.

Meanings of Pneumatic:

adjective

Containing or operated by air or gas under pressure.

Usage examples:

The machines with pneumatic loading are more efficient

noun

An item of pneumatic equipment.

Usage examples:

As with most conventional pneumatics, you have to cock the bolt and load a pellet into the breech b…

Meanings of Pneumatically:

adverb

In a way that uses air pressure

Usage examples:

The pump is pneumatically driven., pneumatically controlled doors allow the trains to enter and exi…

Meanings of Pneumatics:

noun

An item of pneumatic equipment.

Usage examples:

As with most conventional pneumatics, you have to cock the bolt and load a pellet into the breech b…

plural noun

The branch of physics or technology concerned with the mechanical properties of gases.

Usage examples:

His works look like lecture notes from courses he must have given there on mathematics, physics, pn…

Meanings of Pneumatism:

noun

A belief in the soul, spirit, or life force; the theory or beliefs of the pneumatists.

Meanings of Pneumatist:

noun

†(a) philosophy. an advocate or adherent of an antimaterialistic theory of creation. obsolete rare. (b) . an advocate or adherent of the pneumatic theory of physiology.

Meanings of Pneumatize:

verb

To provide with air-filled cavities, to render pneumatic.

Meanings of Pneumatized:

adjective

Of a bone: containing air-filled cavities.

Meanings of Pneumatocele:

noun

An abnormal, localized collection of air or gas in a part of the body, originally specifically in the scrotum, later especially in the lung parenchyma (usually resulting from previous infection or injury).

Meanings of Pneumatocyst:

noun

Originally: the gas-filled chamber of a pneumatophore. later more widely: any air-filled sac in an organism, especially in an animal body; (medicine) a benign intraosseous cyst containing gas or air.

Meanings of Pneumatogram:

noun

A record of respiratory movements or air flow.

Meanings of Pneumatograph:

noun

= pneumograph .

Meanings of Pneumatography:

noun

Writing alleged to be done directly by a disembodied spirit, without the hand of a medium or any material instrument.

Meanings of Pneumatologist:

noun

An expert in pneumatology.

Meanings of Pneumatology:

noun

The branch of christian theology concerned with the holy spirit.

Usage examples:

He does so brilliantly, synthesizing thomas's doctrine of god, god's relationship to creation, the …

Meanings of Pneumatolysis:

noun

The chemical alteration of rocks and the formation of minerals by the action of hot magmatic gases and vapours.

Meanings of Pneumatomachian:

noun

A member of a 4th century sect who denied the divinity or personality of the holy spirit.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of pneumatomachians.

Meanings of Pneumatomachist:

noun

= pneumatomachian .

Meanings of Pneumatometer:

noun

Any of several types of instrument used to measure the volume or force of respiration.

Meanings of Pneumatosis:

noun

Abnormal accumulation of air or gas in a part of the body, especially (more fully "pneumatosis intestinalis", "pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis") in the intestinal wall; an instance of this.

Meanings of Pneumaturia:

noun

The passage of air or gas in the urine.

Meanings of Pneumectomies:

noun

Pneumonectomy.

Meanings of Pneumectomy:

noun

Pneumonectomy.

Meanings of Pneumocele:

noun

An abnormal, localized collection of air or gas in a part of the body; especially an expansile air-filled lesion of a paranasal sinus.