These are the meanings of the letters PAROXYTONE when you unscramble them.
- Anorexy (n.)
Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.
- Apteryx (n.)
A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.
- Entropy (n.)
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.
- Operant (a.)
Operative.
- Operant (n.)
An operative person or thing.
- Oxytone (a.)
Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
- Oxytone (n.)
A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
- Oxytone (n.)
An acute sound.
- Patroon (n.)
One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- Pronate (a.)
Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.
- Pronota (pl. )
of Pronotum
- Protean (a.)
Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
- Protean (a.)
Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.