| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| puberal | adjective | Of or pertaining to puberty. |
| puberty | noun | The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females., The period when a plant first bears flowers. |
| publish | verb t. | To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict., To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage., To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press., To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper. |
| puccoon | noun | Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself. |
| pucelle | noun | A maid; a virgin. |
| puceron | noun | Any plant louse, or aphis. |
| puckery | adjective | Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste., Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles. |
| puckish | adjective | Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. |
| pudding | noun | A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc., Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding., An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage., Any food or victuals., Same as Puddening. |
| puddled | imp. & past participle | of Puddle |
| puddler | noun | One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling. |
| puddock | noun | A small inclosure. |
| pudency | noun | Modesty; shamefacedness. |
| pudenda | noun pl. | The external organs of generation. |
| pudical | adjective | Pudic. |
| puerile | adjective | Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. |
| puffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Puff, a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. |
| puffery | noun | The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation. |
| pugging | present participle & vb. noun | of Pug, The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc., Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; — in the United States usually called deafening., Thieving. |
| pulling | present participle & vb. noun | of Pull |
| pullail | noun | Poultry. |
| pulleys | plural | of Pulley |
| pulping | present participle & vb. noun | of Pulp |
| pulpous | adjective | Containing pulp; pulpy. |
| pulsate | verb | To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. |
| pulsion | noun | The act of driving forward; propulsion; — opposed to suction or traction. |
| pulsive | adjective | Tending to compel; compulsory. |
| pultise | noun | Poultry. |
| pumiced | adjective | Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot. |
| pummace | noun | Same as Pomace. |
| pumping | present participle & vb. noun | of Pump, a. & n. from pump. |
| pumpage | noun | That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps. |
| pumpion | noun | See Pumpkin. |
| pumpkin | noun | A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, — used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion. |
| punning | present participle & vb. noun | of Pun |
| punched | imp. & past participle | of Punch |
| puncher | noun | One who, or that which, punches. |
| punchin | noun | See Puncheon. |
| punctum | noun | A point. |
| pungent | verb t. | Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice., Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging., Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. |
| pungled | adjective | Shriveled or shrunken; — said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium). |
| punster | noun | One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit. |
| pupping | present participle & vb. noun | of Pup |
| puppies | plural | of Puppy |
| puppied | imp. & past participle | of Puppy |
| purring | present participle & vb. noun | of Pur |
| puranic | adjective | Pertaining to the Puranas. |
| purfile | noun | A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women’s gowns; — called also bobbinwork. |
| purflew | noun | A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work., A border of any heraldic fur. |
| purfled | adjective | Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges. |
| purging | present participle & vb. noun | of Purge, That purges; cleansing., The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea. |
| purgery | noun | The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar. |
| puritan | noun | One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; — originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England., One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; — often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions., Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans. |
| purling | present participle & vb. noun | of Purl, The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing. |
| purlieu | noun | Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights., Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. |
| purline | noun | In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters. |
| purloin | verb t. | To take or carry away for one’s self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch., To practice theft; to steal. |
| purples | plural | of Purple |
| purpled | imp. & past participle | of Purple |
| purport | noun | Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor., Disguise; covering., To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; — often with an object clause or infinitive. |
| purpose | noun | That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan., Proposal to another; discourse., Instance; example., To set forth; to bring forward., To propose, as an aim, to one’s self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; — often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause., To have a purpose or intention; to discourse. |
| purpura | noun | A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples., A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye. |
| purpure | noun | Purple, — represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base). |
| purrock | noun | See Puddock, and Parrock. |
| pursing | present participle & vb. noun | of Purse |
| pursive | adjective | Pursy. |
| pursual | noun | The act of pursuit. |
| pursued | imp. & past participle | of Pursue |
| pursuer | noun | One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake., A plaintiff; a prosecutor. |
| pursuit | verb t. | The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy., A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure., Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit., Prosecution. |
| purview | noun | The body of a statute, or that part which begins with ” Be it enacted, ” as distinguished from the preamble., The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions., Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. |
| pushing | present participle & vb. noun | of Push, Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. |
| pushpin | noun | A child’s game played with pins. |
| pustule | noun | A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. |
| putting | present participle & vb. noun | of Put, The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; — originally, a Scottish game. |
| putamen | noun | The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp. |
| put-off | noun | A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse. |
| putrefy | verb t. | To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot., To corrupt; to make foul., To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound., To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot. |
| putrify | verb t. & i. | To putrefy. |
| puttier | noun | One who putties; a glazier. |
| puttock | noun | The European kite., The buzzard., The marsh harrier., See Futtock. |
| puttied | imp. & past participle | of Putty |
| puzzled | imp. & past participle | of Puzzle |
| puzzier | noun | One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes. |