pend, v. 1. be undecided, be unsettled, be up in the air; be pending, be awaiting action, be in abeyance, be on a back burner, be in a holding pattern; hang in the balance, hang fire.
2. hang, hang down, dangle, depend; bob, swing, hinge, turn upon, revolve around,
pendant, n. 1. necklace, lavaliere, locket, medallion, gorget, torque, riviere, Archaic, carcanet, chain, string; eardrop, dangling earring; necklet, scarf, tippet, furpiece; tassle.
2. chandelier, luster, corona, light fixture; gasolier, electrolier.
3. match, equivalent, counterpart, companion piece; complement, correspondent, alternate, companion, mate, fellow; parallel, analogue.
pendent, adj. 1. hanging, suspended, pendulous; dangling, drooping, sagging, Bot. nutant, nodding, bowing, lowering; swinging, swaying.
2. overhanging, jutting out, sticking out, salient, projecting, beetling, protruding, protuberant; extending, overlying, overlapping.
3. impending, imminent, pending. See - pending (def. 3).
4. undecided, undetermined, pending. See - pending (def. 2).
pending, prep. 1. until, until such time as, awaiting, while awaiting, waiting for or on; during.
-adj. 2. undecided, unsettled, undetermined, unresolved, unfinished; indefinite, in or up in the air, in abeyance, abeyant, awaiting action, on a back burner, in or on the fire, hanging fire, in a holding pattern; quiescent, latent, dormant.
3. impending, imminent, approaching, coming, nearing, on the way, close at hand, momentary; in the air or wind, in the cards; inevitable, certain, inescapable,
pendulous, adj. 1. hanging, suspended, pendent, dangling. See - pendent (def. 1).
2. swinging, swaying, oscillating, vibrating; rocking, moving back and forth or to and fro, wigwagging; undulating.
3. vacillating, fluctuating, wavering, fickle, capricious; on-again-off-again, inconstant, unsteady, erratic, spasmodic, fitful.
penetrable, adj. pervious, permeable, porous; open, passable, accessible; intelligible, apprehensible, comprehensible, fathomable; vulnerable, pregnable, open to attack.
penetralia, n. innermost or deepest recesses or parts, secret place or places, depths, bowels, insides; bosom, heart, heart of hearts; core, pith, marrow, kernel, nucleus, center,
penetrate, v. 1. pierce, transpierce, pass through; stab, gore, gouge, spear, lance, spike, run through, Sl. let the daylight in; bore, drill, ream, ream out, auger; perforate, puncture, prick, punch, riddle, Sl. fill full of holes; impale, transfix, fix, spit, skewer, Sl. shish kebab.
2. permeate, pervade, saturate, honeycomb, inosculate, interosculate, interpenetrate; fill, extend throughout, leave no void; percolate, filter through, seep through, soak through; imbue, infuse, suffuse, transfuse, infiltrate, impregnate, leaven.
3. affect, touch, touch a sympathetic chord, strike a familiar chord, strike, hit; touch to the quick, go deep,