All English words - page 4074

Meanings of Peppers:

noun

A pungent hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, used as a spice or condiment to flavour food.

Usage examples:

Season to taste with salt and pepper

verb

Sprinkle or season (food) with pepper.

Usage examples:

I salted and peppered the beef before i browned it

Meanings of Peppershrike:

noun

A tropical american songbird with mainly green and yellow plumage and a heavy bill like that of a shrike.

Meanings of Pepperweed:

noun

Any small wild plant resembling or allied to the peppers, especially pepperworts of the genus lepidium.

Meanings of Pepperwood:

noun

More fully "pepperwood tree". any of various trees with spicy or pungently aromatic wood, bark, or leaves, especially (a) any of the lauraceous trees umbellularia californica of california, cinnamomum laubatii of queensland, and dicypellium caryophyllaceum and licaria guianensis of tropical america; (b) us either of the prickly ashes, zanthoxylum clava-herculis and z. americanum (family rutaceae); (c) nz the horopito, pseudowintera axillaris (family winteraceae).

Meanings of Pepperwort:

noun

A wild cress, particularly one with pungent leaves.

Usage examples:

The ‘wild cress’ called dittander or poor man's pepper and ‘virginian cress’ (pepperwort, peppergra…

Meanings of Peppery:

adjective

Strongly flavoured with pepper or other hot spices.

Usage examples:

A hot, peppery dish

Meanings of Peppier:

adjective

Lively and high-spirited.

Usage examples:

A peppy and energetic woman

Meanings of Peppiest:

adjective

Lively and high-spirited.

Usage examples:

A peppy and energetic woman

Meanings of Pepping:

verb

Make someone or something more lively or interesting.

Usage examples:

Measures to pep up the economy

noun

Post-exposure prophylaxis (treatment given very shortly after exposure to an infectious agent, such as rabies or the hiv virus, to prevent infection)

Usage examples:

Pep must begin within 72 hours of exposure

phrasal verb

To make something more exciting or interesting

Usage examples:

Add cheese and horseradish to pep up the flavor of mashed potatoes., the sight and smell of a rose …

Meanings of Pepping-up:

phrasal verb

To make something more exciting or interesting

Usage examples:

Add cheese and horseradish to pep up the flavor of mashed potatoes., the sight and smell of a rose …

Meanings of Peppy:

adjective

Lively and high-spirited.

Usage examples:

A peppy and energetic woman

Meanings of Peps:

verb

Make someone or something more lively or interesting.

Usage examples:

Measures to pep up the economy

noun

(in the uk) a personal equity plan, a scheme allowing individuals to hold shares and unit trusts free of tax on dividends and capital gains (replaced in 1999 by the isa).

phrasal verb

To make something more exciting or interesting

Usage examples:

Add cheese and horseradish to pep up the flavor of mashed potatoes., the sight and smell of a rose …

Meanings of Pepsi:

noun

A trademark for: pepsi-cola.

Meanings of Pepsin:

noun

The chief digestive enzyme in the stomach, which breaks down proteins into polypeptides.

Usage examples:

Proteins in the stomach are broken down to polypeptides by the enzyme pepsin, which works best in a…

Meanings of Pepsinated:

adjective

That has been mixed or treated with pepsin.

Meanings of Pepsinogen:

noun

A substance which is secreted by the stomach wall and converted into the enzyme pepsin by gastric acid.

Usage examples:

Serum pepsinogen

Meanings of Pepsis:

noun

A trademark for: pepsi-cola.

Meanings of Peptic:

adjective

Relating to digestion, especially that in which pepsin is concerned.

Usage examples:

Peptic activity

Meanings of Peptidase:

noun

An enzyme which breaks down peptides into amino acids.

Usage examples:

Some bacteria naturally have more of these protease and peptidase enzymes than other bacteria, so c…

Meanings of Peptide:

noun

A compound consisting of two or more amino acids linked in a chain, the carboxyl group of each acid being joined to the amino group of the next by a bond of the type -oc-nh-.

Meanings of Peptides:

noun

A compound consisting of two or more amino acids linked in a chain, the carboxyl group of each acid being joined to the amino group of the next by a bond of the type -oc-nh-.

Meanings of Peptidic:

adjective

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

Meanings of Peptidically:

adverb

By means of a peptide bond.

Meanings of Peptidoglycan:

noun

A substance forming the cell walls of many bacteria, consisting of glycosaminoglycan chains interlinked with short peptides.

Usage examples:

For instance, the cell walls of all bacteria contain the chemical peptidoglycan.

Meanings of Peptidolytic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or involving peptidolysis; causing peptidolysis.