English words starting with pse

Meanings of Psellism:

noun

A defect of speech; especially stammering.

Meanings of Psephism:

noun

A decree enacted by a vote of a public assembly, especially that of ancient athens.

Meanings of Psephisma:

noun

= psephism .

Meanings of Psephite:

noun

A coarse-grained breccia, conglomerate, or similar sedimentary rock; (in later use) specifically such a rock after metamorphic alteration.

Meanings of Psephites:

noun

A coarse-grained breccia, conglomerate, or similar sedimentary rock; (in later use) specifically such a rock after metamorphic alteration.

Meanings of Psephitic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a psephite.

Meanings of Psephologist:

noun

Someone who studies elections and voting statistics (= numbers)

Meanings of Psephology:

noun

The statistical study of elections and trends in voting.

Usage examples:

As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep…

Meanings of Psephomancy:

noun

Divination by drawing a number of small stones from a heap or vessel, the stones being previously marked with symbols which may be interpreted by the diviner.

Meanings of Pseud:

noun

An intellectually pretentious or affected person.

Usage examples:

At the height of the band's career, he was thought to be the biggest pseud in rock

adjective

Intellectually pretentious or affected.

Usage examples:

To seek inspiration in literature or folklore is to risk being pilloried as pseud

combining form

Variant spelling of pseudo- reduced before a vowel (as in pseudepigrapha ).

Meanings of Pseudaconine:

noun

A highly poisonous alkaloid related to aconitine and occurring in several aconites, especially bikh, aconitum ferox.

Meanings of Pseudaconitine:

noun

A highly poisonous alkaloid related to aconitine and occurring in several aconites, especially bikh, aconitum ferox.

Meanings of Pseudandry:

noun

The use by a woman of a male pseudonym.

Meanings of Pseudaposematic:

adjective

Designating colours or markings exhibited by a harmless animal that protect it by mimicking the warning coloration of noxious or unpalatable animals, as characteristic of batesian mimicry.

Meanings of Pseudarthrosis:

noun

A false joint, especially one formed when the two parts of a fractured bone fail to unite; the formation of such a joint.

Meanings of Pseudataxic:

adjective

Resembling (that of) ataxia.

Meanings of Pseudechis:

noun

A genus of australasian snakes of the family elapidae, which consists of large, smooth-scaled venomous snakes, some of which can flatten the neck like a cobra when threatened, and comprises the black snakes and the king brown snake (pseudechis australis); (also pseudechis) a snake of this genus.

Meanings of Pseudepigraph:

noun

A book or writing that is falsely titled or attributed; a spurious or pseudonymous writing.

Meanings of Pseudepigrapha:

plural noun

Spurious or pseudonymous writings, especially jewish writings ascribed to various biblical patriarchs and prophets but composed within approximately 200 years of the birth of christ.

Usage examples:

Many of these pseudepigrapha are not merely falsely ascribed, but the result of deliberate deception.

Meanings of Pseudepigraphy:

noun

False ascription of authorship.

Meanings of Pseudimago:

noun

A form or stage that resembles the adult but is not a true adult; especially the subimago of a mayfly.

Meanings of Pseudo:

adjective

Not genuine; spurious or sham.

Usage examples:

We are talking about real journalists and not the pseudo kind

noun

A pretentious or insincere person.

Usage examples:

The arty chat of a campus pseudo

combining form

Supposed or purporting to be but not really so; false; not genuine.

Usage examples:

Pseudonym

prefix

Pretended and not real

Usage examples:

Pseudo-religious, a pseudo-intellectual

Meanings of Pseudoaconitine:

noun

A highly poisonous alkaloid related to aconitine and occurring in several aconites, especially bikh, aconitum ferox.

Meanings of Pseudoalkaloid:

noun

A substance resembling an alkaloid.

Meanings of Pseudoallele:

noun

Each of two or more mutations that are allelic functionally, in that they affect the same process or property, but not structurally, in that crossing over is possible between them.