• Composting Toilet

    Composting toilet is a toilet that do not use any water. This type of toilet is a dry toilet. The toilet processes the human excreta by using harsh chemicals.

  • Puir

    adjective, Scot. 1. poor. 2. pure. adjective 1. a Scot word for poor

  • Puirtith

    noun 1. (Scot) poverty

  • Puisne

    adjective 1. Law. younger; inferior in rank; junior, as in appointment. noun 2. an associate judge as distinguished from a chief justice. adjective 1. (esp of a subordinate judge) of lower rank

  • Puissance

    noun, Literary. 1. power, might, or force. noun 1. a competition in showjumping that tests a horse’s ability to jump a limited number of large obstacles 2. (archaic or poetic) power

  • Greer

    [greer] /grɪər/ noun 1. Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer. 2. a town in NW South Carolina. 3. a female given name. /ˈɡrɪə/ noun 1. Germaine. born 1939, Australian writer, academic, and feminist. Her books include The Female Eunuch (1970), Sex and Destiny (1984), and The Whole Woman (1998)

  • Augean stables

    the stables in which King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years. The cleaning of these stables was accomplished by Hercules, who diverted the river Alpheus through them. Contemporary Examples I had to chase the chickens back into the coop and close the door so I could finish with […]

  • Safety-curtain

    noun 1. a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium. safety curtain noun 1. a curtain made of fireproof material that can be lowered to separate the auditorium and stage in a theatre to […]

  • Converted-rice

    noun 1. white rice prepared from brown rice that has been pressure-steamed to enable the nutrients within the bran to be absorbed by the starchy endosperm before the rice is dried and milled. 2. parboiled rice.

  • Campshedding

    to line (the bank of a river) with campshot. a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.