child·hood 
(chīldhd′)
(chīldhd′)n.
1. The time or state of being a child.
2. The early stage in the existence or development of something: the childhood of Western civilization.
- parasympathetic nervous system
- parasympathomimetic
- parasynthesis
- parasynthetic
- paratactic
- paratactical
- paratactically
- parataxis
- paratenic host
- parathion
- parathyroid
- parathyroidectomy
- parathyroid gland
- parathyroid hormone
- paratroop
- paratrooper
- paratroops
- paratype
- paratyphoid fever
- paratypic
- paraurethral gland
- paravane
- Paraíba
- Paraíba do Sul
- parboil