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Pi
  • (n.) A Greek letter (/, /) corresponding to the Roman letter P.
  • (v. t.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type

    Piacular
  • (a.) Expiatory

    Pianissimo
  • (a.) Very soft

    Pianist
  • (n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

    Piano
  • (a. & adv.) Soft

    Piassava
  • (n.) A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba)

    Piazza
  • (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town

    Pibroch
  • (n.) A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage

    Pic
  • (n.) A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

    Pica
  • (n.) A service-book.

    Piccalilli
  • (n.) A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species

    Piccolo
  • (n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.

    Pice
  • (n.) A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.

    Pick
  • (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle
  • (v.) To choose
  • (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things

    Picnic
  • (v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table
  • (v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion

    Picoline
  • (n.) 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

    Picot
  • (n.) One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

    Picrate
  • (n.) A salt of picric acid.

    Picrite
  • (n.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc

    Picrotoxin
  • (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances

    Pictish
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Picts

    Pictograph
  • (n.) A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

    Pictorial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pictures

    Picture
  • (n.) An image or resemblance
  • (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of

    Picul
  • (n.) A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135/ lbs

    Piddling
  • (a.) Trifling

    Piddock
  • (n.) Any species of Pholas

    Pie
  • (n.) A magpie.

    Piecemeal
  • (a.) Made up of parts or pieces
  • (adv.) In pieces
  • (n.) A fragment

    Piecework
  • (n.) Work done by the piece or job

    Piedmont
  • (a.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

    Pier
  • (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall.

    Pietism
  • (n.) Strict devotion

    Piety
  • (n.) Duty

    Piezometer
  • (n.) A gauge connected with a water main to show the pressure at that point.

    Piffle
  • (n.) Act of piffling
  • (v. i.) To be sequeamish or delicate

    Pigeon
  • (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers
  • (v. t.) To pluck

    Pigfish
  • (n.) Any one of several species of salt-water grunts

    Piggery
  • (n.) A place where swine are kept.

    Piggish
  • (a.) Relating to, or like, a pig

    Pigment
  • (n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared

    Pigpen
  • (n.) A pen, or sty, for pigs.

    Pigskin
  • (n.) A football

    Pigsty
  • (n.) A pigpen.

    Pigtail
  • (n.) A cue, or queue.

    Pigweed
  • (n.) A name of several annual weeds.

    Pika
  • (n.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits

    Pike
  • (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head
  • (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish

    Pilaster
  • (n.) 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

    Pilchard
  • (n.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder

    Pile
  • (n.) A covering of hair or fur.
  • (v. t.) To cover with heaps

    Pilfer
  • (v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value
  • (v. t.) To take by petty theft

    Pilgrim
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims
  • (n.) A wayfarer
  • (v. i.) To journey

    Piliferous
  • (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.

    Piliform
  • (a.) Resembling hairs or down.

    Pill
  • (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
  • (v. i.) To be peeled
  • (v. t.) To deprive of hair
  • (v. t. & i.) To rob

    Pilocarpine
  • (n.) An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system

    Pilose
  • (a.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.

    Pilot
  • (n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.

    Pimento
  • (n.) Allspice

    Pimiento
  • (n.) The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc

    Pimp
  • (n.) One who provides gratification for the lust of others
  • (v. i.) To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts

    Pin
  • (n.) A clothespin.
  • (v. t.) To inclose

    Pinafore
  • (n.) An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress

    Pinaster
  • (n.) A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.

    Pinch
  • (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument
  • (v. i.) To act with pressing force
  • (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp

    Pincushion
  • (n.) A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.

    Pindaric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet
  • (n.) A Pindaric ode.

    Pine
  • (n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus.
  • (v.) To grieve or mourn for.
  • (v. i.) To languish

    Pinfeather
  • (n.) A feather not fully developed

    Pinfish
  • (n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).

    Pinfold
  • (n.) A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined

    Ping
  • (n.) The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
  • (v. i.) To make the sound called ping.

    Pinion
  • (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack)
  • (v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine

    Pinite
  • (n.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite

    Pink
  • (a.) Half-shut
  • (n.) A stab.
  • (v. i.) To wink
  • (v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white

    Pinna
  • (n.) A leaflet of a pinnate leaf.

    Pinniped
  • (n.) One of the Pinnipedes.

    Pinnule
  • (n.) Any one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance

    Pinole
  • (n.) An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate.

    Pint
  • (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills

    Pinweed
  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers

    Pinworm
  • (n.) A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man

    Piny
  • (a.) Abounding with pines.

    Pioneer
  • (n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances
  • (v. t. & i.) To go before, and prepare or open a way for

    Pious
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to piety

    Pip
  • (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue
  • (v. i.) To cry or chirp, as a chicken

    Pipa
  • (n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.

    Pipe
  • (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties
  • (v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying
  • (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

    Piping
  • (n.) A piece cut off to be set or planted
  • (v.) Emitting a high, shrill sound.

    Pipistrelle
  • (n.) A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus)

    Pipit
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidae

    Pipkin
  • (n.) A small earthen boiler.

    Pippin
  • (n.) A name given to apples of several different kinds, as Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin

    Pipsissewa
  • (n.) A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms

    Piquant
  • (a.) Stimulating to the taste

    Pique
  • (n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom
  • (v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.
  • (v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy

    Piracy
  • (n.)

    Pirate
  • (n.) An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas
  • (v. i.) To play the pirate
  • (v. t.) To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

    Pirogue
  • (n.) A dugout canoe

    Pirouette
  • (n.) A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
  • (v. i.) To perform a pirouette

    Piscary
  • (n.) The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

    Pisces
  • (n. pl.) A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point

    Pisciculture
  • (n.) Fish culture.

    Pisciform
  • (a.) Having the form of a fish

    Piscina
  • (n.) A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.

    Piscine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes

    Piscivorous
  • (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.

    Pish
  • (interj.) An exclamation of contempt.
  • (v. i.) To express contempt.

    Pisiform
  • (a.) Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape
  • (n.) A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals.

    Pisolite
  • (n.) A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea

    Pistachio
  • (n.) Pistachio green.

    Piste
  • (n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.

    Pistil
  • (n.) An epistle.

    Pistol
  • (n.) The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand
  • (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.

    Piston
  • (n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth

    Pit
  • (n.) A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts
  • (v. t.) To introduce as an antagonist

    Pita
  • (n.) A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species

    Pitch
  • (n.) A descent
  • (v. i.) To fix one's choise
  • (v. t.) To fix or set the tone of

    Piteous
  • (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy

    Pitfall
  • (n.) A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men

    Pith
  • (n.) Hence: The which contains the strength of life
  • (v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal

    Pitiable
  • (a.) Deserving pity

    Pitiful
  • (a.) Full of pity

    Pitiless
  • (a.) Destitute of pity

    Pitta
  • (n.) Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae

    Pituitary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the pituitary body

    Pity
  • (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others
  • (v. i.) To be compassionate
  • (v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for

    Pivot
  • (n.) A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
  • (v. t.) To place on a pivot.

    Pixie
  • (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring

    Placable
  • (a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified

    Placard
  • (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
  • (v. t.) To announce by placards

    Placate
  • (v. t.) To appease

    Place
  • (n.) A broad way in a city
  • (v. t.) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially

    Placid
  • (a.) Pleased

    Placket
  • (n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat

    Placoderm
  • (n.) One of the Placodermi.

    Placoid
  • (a.) Platelike
  • (n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.

    Plagal
  • (a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave

    Plage
  • (n.) A region

    Plagiarism
  • (n.) That which plagiarized.

    Plagiarize
  • (v. t.) To steal or purloin from the writings of another

    Plagioclase
  • (n.) A general term used of any triclinic feldspar.

    Plague
  • (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality

    Plaguy
  • (a.) Vexatious

    Plaice
  • (n.) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more

    Plaid
  • (a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid
  • (n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes

    Plain
  • (a.) A field of battle.
  • (adv.) In a plain manner
  • (superl.) Free from affectation or disguise
  • (v.) To make plain or manifest
  • (v. i.) To lament
  • (v. t.) To lament

    Plait
  • (n.) A braid, as of hair or straw
  • (v. t.) To fold

    Plan
  • (a.) A draught or form
  • (v. t.) To form a delineation of

    Plaque
  • (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall

    Plash
  • (n.) The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  • (v.) A dash of water
  • (v. i.) To dabble in water
  • (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of

    Plasm
  • (n.) A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.

    Plaster
  • (n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses

    Plastic
  • (a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster
  • (n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded

    Plasticity
  • (n.) Plastic force.

    Plastron
  • (n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.

    Plat
  • (adv.) Flatly
  • (n.) A plot
  • (v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving

    Plaudit
  • (n.) A mark or expression of applause

    Plausible
  • (a.) Obtaining approbation

    Plausive
  • (a.) Applauding

    Play
  • (n.) Action
  • (v. t.) To act or perform (a play)

    Plaza
  • (n.) A public square in a city or town.

    Plea
  • (n.) A cause in court

    Plebe
  • (n.) A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point.

    Plebiscite
  • (n.) A vote by universal male suffrage

    Plebs
  • (n.) Hence, the common people

    Plectognath
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.
  • (n.) One of the Plectognathi.

    Pledge
  • (n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

    Pledgor
  • (n.) One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge

    Pleiad
  • (n.) One of the Pleiades.

    Pleistocene
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man
  • (n.) The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.

    Plenary
  • (a.) Full
  • (n.) Decisive procedure.

    Plenipotent
  • (a.) Possessing full power.

    Plenitude
  • (n.) Animal fullness

    Plenteous
  • (a.) Containing plenty

    Plentiful
  • (a.) Containing plenty

    Plenty
  • (a.) Full or adequate supply

    Plenum
  • (n.) A condition, as in an occupied room, in which the pressure of the air is greater than that of the outside atmosphere

    Pleochroism
  • (n.) The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes

    Pleomorphism
  • (n.) The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism

    Pleonasm
  • (n.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing

    Pleopod
  • (n.) One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.

    Plesiosaur
  • (n.) One of the Plesiosauria.

    Plethora
  • (n.) Overfullness

    Pleura
  • (n.) pl. of Pleuron.

    Pleurisy
  • (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity

    Pleurodont
  • (a.) Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.
  • (n.) Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.

    Pleurodynia
  • (n.) A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

    Pleuron
  • (n.) One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.

    Pleuropneumonia
  • (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs

    Plexiform
  • (a.) Like network

    Plexus
  • (n.) A network

    Pliable
  • (v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent

    Pliant
  • (v.) Capable of plying or bending

    Plica
  • (v.) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches

    Pliers
  • (n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws

    Plight
  • (n.) A network
  • (v. t.) To weave

    Plinth
  • (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column

    Pliocene
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.
  • (n.) The Pliocene period or deposits.

    Plod
  • (v. i.) To toil
  • (v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.

    Plop
  • (n.) Act of plopping
  • (v. i.) To fall, drop, or move in any way, with a sudden splash or slap, as on the surface of water

    Plot
  • (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one
  • (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem
  • (v. t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of

    Plough
  • (n.) A carucate of land
  • (v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow
  • (v. t.) To furrow

    Plover
  • (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola)

    Ploy
  • (n.) Sport
  • (v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision

    Pluck
  • (n.) Spirit
  • (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching
  • (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch

    Plug
  • (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
  • (v. t.) To stop with a plug

    Plum
  • (n.) A grape dried in the sun

    Plunder
  • (n.) Personal property and effects
  • (v. t.) To take by pillage

    Plunge
  • (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing
  • (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest
  • (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

    Plunk
  • (n.) Act or sound of plunking.
  • (v. i.) To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily
  • (v. t.) To be a truant from (school).

    Pluperfect
  • (a.) More than perfect
  • (n.) The pluperfect tense

    Plural
  • (a.) Relating to, or containing, more than one
  • (n.) The plural number

    Plus
  • (a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional

    Pluto
  • (n.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune

    Pluvial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rain
  • (n.) A priest's cope.

    Pluviometer
  • (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time

    Pluvious
  • (a.) Abounding in rain

    Ply
  • (v.) A fold
  • (v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily
  • (v. t.) To bend.

    Pneumatic
  • (n.) A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires.

    Pneumatology
  • (n.) The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids.

    Pneumatophore
  • (n.) One of the Pneumonophora.

    Pneumococcus
  • (n.) A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease

    Pneumonia
  • (n.) Inflammation of the lungs.

    Pneumonic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia
  • (n.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.

    Pneumonitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the lungs

    Pneumothorax
  • (n.) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest

    Poach
  • (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water
  • (v. i.) To become soft or muddy.
  • (v. t.) To begin and not complete.

    Pock
  • (n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

    Poco
  • (adv.) A little

    Pod
  • (n.) A bag
  • (v. i.) To swell

    Podagra
  • (n.) Gout in the joints of the foot

    Podesta
  • (n.) A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy.

    Podium
  • (n.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.

    Podophyllin
  • (n.) A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum)

    Poem
  • (n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned

    Poesy
  • (n.) A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing

    Poet
  • (n.) One skilled in making poetry

    Pogy
  • (n.) The menhaden.

    Poi
  • (n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment

    Poikilocyte
  • (n.) An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle

    Poikilothermic
  • (a.) Having a varying body temperature.

    Poinciana
  • (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments

    Poinsettia
  • (n.) A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers

    Point
  • (n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.
  • (v. i.) To approximate to the surface
  • (v. t. & i.) To appoint.

    Poise
  • (n.) To ascertain, as by the balance
  • (v.) That which causes a balance
  • (v. i.) To hang in equilibrium

    Poison
  • (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it
  • (v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.

    Poke
  • (n.) A bag
  • (v. i.) To search
  • (v. t.) To put a poke on

    Poky
  • (a.) Confined

    Polar
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere
  • (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section

    Polder
  • (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.

    Pole
  • (n.) A long, slender piece of wood
  • (v. t.) To convey on poles

    Police
  • (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc
  • (v. t.) To keep in order by police.

    Policy
  • (n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery
  • (v. t.) To regulate by laws

    Polish
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
  • (v. i.) To become smooth, as from friction
  • (v. t.) Hence, to refine

    Polite
  • (v.) Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish
  • (v. t.) To polish

    Politic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government
  • (n.) A politician.

    Polity
  • (n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized

    Polka
  • (n.) A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time

    Poll
  • (n.) A number or aggregate of heads
  • (v. i.) To vote at an election.
  • (v. t.) To cut off

    Polo
  • (n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

    Poltroon
  • (a.) Base
  • (n.) An arrant coward

    Poly
  • (n.) A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region

    Pomace
  • (n.) The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

    Pomade
  • (n.) Cider.

    Pomander
  • (n.) A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain

    Pome
  • (n.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service

    Pomiculture
  • (n.) The culture of fruit

    Pomiferous
  • (a.) Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple.

    Pommel
  • (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
  • (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike

    Pomology
  • (n.) The science of fruits

    Pomona
  • (n.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.

    Pomp
  • (n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor
  • (v. i.) To make a pompons display

    Poncho
  • (n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through

    Pond
  • (n.) A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.
  • (v. t.) To make into a pond

    Pone
  • (n.) A kind of johnnycake.

    Pongee
  • (n.) A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

    Poniard
  • (n.) A kind of dagger
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a poniard

    Pons
  • (n.) A bridge

    Pontifex
  • (n.) A high priest

    Pontiff
  • (n.) A high priest.

    Pontifical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest
  • (n.) A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

    Pontificate
  • (n.) The state or dignity of a high priest
  • (v. i.) To perform the duty of a pontiff.

    Pontine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.

    Pontoon
  • (n.) A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc

    Pony
  • (n.) A small glass of beer.


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