| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| piacularity | noun | The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. |
| pickpennies | plural | of Pickpenny |
| picturesque | adjective | Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. |
| picturizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Picturize |
| piecemealed | adjective | Divided into pieces. |
| piedmontite | noun | A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote. |
| pietistical | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious. |
| pietra dura | Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble. | |
| pignoration | noun | The act of pledging or pawning., The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. |
| pignorative | adjective | Pledging, pawning. |
| pike-devant | noun | A pointed beard. |
| pill-willet | noun | The willet. |
| pilocarpine | noun | An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. |
| pinacotheca | noun | A picture gallery. |
| pipe laying | The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc., The act or method of making combinations for personal advantage secretly or slyly; — in this sense, usually written as one word. | |
| piperaceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to the order of plants (Piperaceae) of which the pepper (Piper nigrum) is the type. There are about a dozen genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and aromatic qualities. |
| pipistrelle | noun | A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); — called also flittermouse. |
| pippul tree | Same as Peepul tree. | |
| pirouetting | present participle & vb. noun | of Pirouette |
| piscatorial | adjective | Alt. of Piscatory |
| piscivorous | adjective | Feeding or subsisting on fish. |
| pissasphalt | noun | Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. |
| pitch-black | adjective | Black as pitch or tar. |
| pitchblende | noun | A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite. |
| pitcherfuls | plural | of Pitcherful |
| pitch-faced | adjective | Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; — said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced. |