German–English dictionary

pfropfen

(transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

Pfropfreis

(horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

Pfropfung

(horticulture) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.

Pfründe

A tenure.

Pfuhl

A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road. [from 14th c.]

pfui

Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.

Pfusch

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

pfuschen

(intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid. [from 1706]

Pfuscher

Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

Pfuscherei

(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

Pfuscherin

Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

Pfütze

A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

Phalanx

(historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.

Phallus

(psychoanalysis) The signifier of the desire of the Other, and the signifier of jouissance.

phänomenal

(colloquial) Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.

Phänotyp

(genetics, evolutionary theory) The appearance of an organism based on a multifactorial combination of genetic traits and environmental factors, especially used in pedigrees.

Phantasie

That which comes from one's imagination.

phantasieren

(intransitive, followed by "about", "of" or (formerly) "on") To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.

phantasievoll

Unreal or imagined.

Phantastik

(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.

Phantom

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

Phantomschreiber

A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

Pharao

(historical) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty

Pharaonin

(historical) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty

pharaonisch

Of or pertaining to a pharaoh.

Pharmazeut

(pharmacy, academic) One who studies pharmacy.

Pharmazeutin

(pharmacy, academic) One who studies pharmacy.

pharmazeutisch

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

Pharmazie

(uncountable) The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.

Pharo

(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.

Pharynx

(anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.

Pheromon

(biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.

Phi

Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".

Philanthrop

A person who loves humankind in general.

Philanthropin

A person who loves humankind in general.

philanthropisch

Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind

Philantropie

(chiefly, _, uncountable) Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of humankind.

philharmonisch

(music) Appreciative of music, but especially to its performance; devoted to music.

philie

(pathology) Used to form nouns meaning abnormal liking or tendency (for something), e.g. paraphilia.

Philipp

(uncountable) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the Bible; one of the seven deacons.

Philippika

(by extension) Any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation.

Philippinen

The islands of the Malay Archipelago on which the country of Philippines is situated

Philippiner

A citizen or inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.

Philippinerin

A citizen or inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.

Philippinisch

(uncountable) The national language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog.

Philippus

(uncountable) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the Bible; one of the seven deacons.

Philister

(historical) A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.

Philisterei

A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.

Philisterin

(historical) A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.

philiströs

(derogatory) Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.

Philogynie

Love or fondness for women.

Philologe

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

Philologie

(philosophy, rare) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

Philologin

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.

philologisch

(linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.

Philomena

A en given name.

philosophieren

To ponder or reason out philosophically.

philosophisch

Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.

Phiole

A glass or plastic vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.

Phishing

The act of circumventing security with an alias.

Phlegma

Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference.

phlegmatisch

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

Phloem

(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.

phlogistisch

Relating to, causing, or caused by inflammation.

Phlox

Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.

Pho

A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.

Phöbe

A en given name.

phobie

Used to form nouns meaning fear of a specific thing.

Phoebe

A en given name.

Phoenix

A white variety of grape of German origin used for winemaking.

Phon

(acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.

Phonem

(phonology) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

Phönix

A white variety of grape of German origin used for winemaking.

Phönizier

An inhabitant of Phoenix, Arizona.

Phönizierin

An inhabitant of Phoenix, Arizona.

phönizisch

Of, from, or related to the country or civilisation of Phoenicia.

Phonograph

(British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.

Phosphat

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.

Phosphid

(chemistry) Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.

Phosphor

(chemistry) a chemical element (symbol P) with an atomic number of 15, that exists in several allotropic forms.

phosphorhaltig

(chemistry) Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5). [from 18th c.]

Photograph

(photography) One who takes photographs, typically as an occupation.

Photographie

(photography) A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Photographin

(photography) One who takes photographs, typically as an occupation.

photographisch

Pertaining to photographs or photography.

Photokopie

A copy made using a photocopier.

photokopieren

(transitive) To make a copy using a photocopier.

Photon

(particle) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.

photonisch

of, or relating to photons or to photonics

photoshoppen

(trademark, media, computing, usually, transitive) To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).

Photosynthese

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any process by which plants and other photoautotrophs convert light energy into chemical energy.

photosynthetisch

Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.

Phrase

(uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.

Phrasendrescherrei

(uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.

Phraseologie

A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.

Phraseologismus

A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.

Phyllis

A en given name derived from the mythological character.

Phylogenie

(systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

Physik

The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.

physikalisch

Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]

Physiker

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

Physikerin

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

Physiognomik

The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.

Physiologie

A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.

physiologisch

Of, or relating to physiology.

Physiotherapie

(British, Commonwealth, Irish) Therapy that uses physical techniques such as massage, ultrasound, heat, and exercise.

physisch

Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; real. Having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]

Phytoplankton

Plankton, especially those small in size, that obtain energy by photosynthesis.

Pi

The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.

Pianist

(musician) A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.

Pianistin

(musician) A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.

piano

(music) Softly, as a dynamic in a piece of music. [from 17th c.]

Pianofortist

(music) A person who plays the pianoforte.

Pianofortistin

(music) A person who plays the pianoforte.

Picador

(bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.

picardisch

Of, from or relating to Picardy, a cultural region part of the administrative region of Hauts-de-France, France.

Piccolo

A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

Piccoloflöte

A piccolo flute A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

picheln

(slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.

Pickel

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

picken

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

Picker

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:

pico-

In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10−12 (short scale trillionth or long scale billionth).

picobello

(originally, nautical) Meticulously neat and tidy.

Pidgin

(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.

Pidgin-Sprache

(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.

Pidginsprache

(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.

PIE

(linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.

Piedestal

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

Piemont

An administrative region in the north of Italy.

Piepen

A short, electronically produced tone.

Piepmatz

A little bird; especially, a baby bird.

Pieps

A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

piepsen

(intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.

Piepser

(telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.

Pier

(nautical) A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

Piercing

A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it.

piesacken

(transitive) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press.

Piesackerei

Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.

Piesepampel

One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.

Pietät

(uncountable) Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.

pietätlos

Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.

pietätvoll

Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.

Pigment

(biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.

pigmentieren

(transitive) To add color or pigment to something.

Pigmentierung

Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.

Pik

(obsolete)

Pikachu

(video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.

Pikador

(bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.

pikant

Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy. [from 17th c.]