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Pentangle
n.
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A pentagon.
Pentangular
a.
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Having five corners or angles.
Pentapetalous
a.
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Having five petals, or flower leaves.
Pentaphyllous
a.
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Having five leaves or leaflets.
Pentapody
n.
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A measure or series consisting of five feet.
Pentaptote
n.
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A noun having five cases.
Pentaptych
n.
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A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.
Pentarchy
n.
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A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.
Pentaspast
n.
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A purchase with five pulleys.
Pentaspermous
a.
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Containing five seeds.
Pentastich
n.
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A composition consisting of five verses.
Pentastichous
a.
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Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.
Pentastomida
n. pl.
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Same as Linguatulina.
Pentastyle
a.
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Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture.
Pentastyle
n.
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A portico having five columns.
Pentateuch
n.
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The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
Pentateuchal
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch.
Pentathionic
a.
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Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.
Pentathlon
n.
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A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.
Pentatomic
a.
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Having five atoms in the molecule.
Pentatomic
a.
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Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution.
Pentavalent
a.
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Having a valence of five; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.
Penteconter
n.
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A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.
Pentecost
n.
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A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.
Pentecost
n.
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A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.
Pentecostal
a.
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Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.
Pentecostals
n. pl.
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Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
Pentecoster
n.
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An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
Pentecosties
pl.
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of Pentecosty
Pentecosty
n.
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A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.