| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| piacular | adjective | Expiatory; atoning., Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. |
| pianette | noun | A small piano; a pianino. |
| piassava | noun | A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), — used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba. |
| picapare | noun | The finfoot. |
| picariae | noun pl. | An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds. |
| picarian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Picariae., One of the Picariae. |
| picaroon | noun | One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. |
| picayune | noun | A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. |
| piccadil | noun | Alt. of Piccadilly |
| piciform | adjective | Of or pertaining to Piciformes. |
| pickback | adverb | On the back. |
| pickerel | noun | A young or small pike., Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species., The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye. |
| picketed | imp. & past participle | of Picket |
| picketee | noun | See Picotee. |
| pickling | present participle & vb. noun | of Pickle |
| picklock | noun | An instrument for picking locks., One who picks locks; a thief. |
| pickmire | noun | The pewit, or black-headed gull. |
| picknick | noun | See Picnic. |
| pickpack | adverb | Pickaback. |
| picoline | noun | Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; — called also methyl pyridine. |
| picotine | noun | A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges. |
| picromel | noun | A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste. |
| pictoric | adjective | Alt. of Pictorical |
| pictural | adjective | Pictorial., A picture. |
| pictured | imp. & past participle | of Picture, Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene. |
| picturer | noun | One who makes pictures; a painter. |
| piddling | present participle & vb. noun | of Piddle, Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; — applied to persons and things. |
| piecener | noun | One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills., Same as Piecer, 2. |
| piedmont | adjective | Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain. |
| piedness | noun | The state of being pied. |
| pieplant | noun | A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb. |
| piercing | present participle & vb. noun | of Pierce, Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; — used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust. |
| pierides | noun pl. | The Muses. |
| pigeonry | noun | A place for pigeons; a dovecote. |
| pig-eyed | adjective | Having small, deep-set eyes. |
| pigsties | plural | of Pigsty |
| piketail | noun | See Pintail, 1. |
| pilaster | noun | An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less. |
| pilchard | noun | A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England. |
| pileated | adjective | Having the form of a cap for the head., Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head. |
| pilement | noun | An accumulation; a heap. |
| pilentum | noun | An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried. |
| pileworm | noun | The teredo. |
| pilewort | noun | A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles. |
| pilfered | imp. & past participle | of Pilfer |
| pilferer | noun | One who pilfers; a petty thief. |
| pilidium | noun | The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior. |
| pilifera | noun pl. | Same as Mammalia. |
| piliform | adjective | Resembling hairs or down. |
| pillaged | imp. & past participle | of Pillage |
| pillager | noun | One who pillages. |
| pillared | adjective | Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. |
| pillaret | noun | A little pillar. |
| pillowed | imp. & past participle | of Pillow, Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. |
| pillworm | noun | Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod. |
| pillwort | noun | Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; — sometimes called peppergrass. |
| pilosity | noun | The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. |
| piloting | present participle & vb. noun | of Pilot |
| pilotage | noun | The pilot’s skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels., The compensation made or allowed to a pilot., Guidance, as by a pilot. |
| pilotism | noun | Alt. of Pilotry |
| pilulous | adjective | Like a pill; small; insignificant. |
| pimelite | noun | An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron. |
| pimpillo | noun | A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); — called also pimploes. |
| pimpinel | noun | The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage. |
| pimpship | noun | The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp. |
| pinacoid | noun | A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes. |
| pinacone | noun | A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type. |
| pinafore | noun | An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier. |
| pinaster | noun | A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe. |
| pinching | present participle & vb. noun | of Pinch, Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. |
| pinchers | noun pl. | An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; — used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc. |
| pincpinc | noun | An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix). |
| pindaric | adjective | Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes., A Pindaric ode. |
| pineries | plural | of Pinery |
| pineweed | noun | A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States. |
| pin-eyed | adjective | Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; — said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed. |
| pingster | noun | See Pinkster. |
| piningly | adverb | In a pining manner; droopingly. |
| pinioned | imp. & past participle | of Pinion, Having wings or pinions. |
| pinkness | noun | Quality or state of being pink. |
| pinkroot | noun | The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below)., A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass., An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia). |
| pinkster | noun | Whitsuntide. |
| pinnacle | noun | An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, — used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc., Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit., To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. |
| pinnated | adjective | Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly., Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck. |
| pinniped | noun | One of the Pinnipedia; a seal., One of the Pinnipedes. |
| pinnulae | plural | of Pinnula |
| pinpatch | noun | The common English periwinkle. |
| pintados | plural | of Pintado |
| pipeclay | verb t. | To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier’s accouterments., To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts. |
| pipefish | noun | Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place. |
| piperine | noun | A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other species. |
| pipestem | noun | The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. |
| pipevine | noun | The Dutchman’s pipe. See under Dutchman. |
| pipewort | noun | Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves. |
| piquancy | noun | The quality or state of being piquant. |
| piracies | plural | of Piracy |
| pirarucu | noun | Same as Arapaima. |
| pirating | present participle & vb. noun | of Pirate |
| piscator | noun | A fisherman; an angler. |
| piscinal | adjective | Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina. |
| pisiform | adjective | Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore., A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
| pisolite | noun | A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; — called also peastone, peagrit. |
| pissabed | noun | A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc. |
| pistacia | noun | The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine. |
| pistoled | imp. & past participle | of Pistol |
| pistolet | noun | A small pistol. |
| pitahaya | noun | A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit. |
| pitching | present participle & vb. noun | of Pitch, The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball., The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone., A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. |
| pithless | adjective | Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble. |
| pit-hole | noun | A pit; a pockmark. |
| pithsome | adjective | Pithy; robust. |
| pitiable | adjective | Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. |
| pitiless | adjective | Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements., Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition. |
| pittacal | noun | A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue. |
| pittance | noun | An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole., A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation. |
| pityroid | adjective | Having the form of, or resembling, bran. |
| pivoting | present participle & vb. noun | of Pivot |
| pixy-led | adjective | Led by pixies; bewildered. |