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- PHYLOGENICOf or pertaining to phylogeny
- PICOGRAMAn SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams. Symbol: pg
- PLOSIVEA speech sound produced by opening a closed vocal tract.
- POGEYA poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
- POSTDILUVIANPostdiluvial.
- POTHERA commotion, a tempest.
- POXYSuffering from pox.
- PUCKISHHaving a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
- PYROGENICGenerating or produced by heat, especially in the body; causing or caused by fever.
- QUACKERYThe practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
- RATLINEThe rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.
- RHEOLOGICOf, or relating to, rheology: the deformation and flow of matter.
- RHEUMYOf, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.
- SCRUMPYA rough cider, normally more alcoholic than usual, and typically produced through natural fermentation.
- SEMIQUAVERA sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.
- SHUNTERA railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
- TANNOYA public address system.
- THEOSOPHICOf, or relating to theosophy.
- VARIEGATEDStreaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
- VERONICAThe image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
- VEXATIOUSCausing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- WASTRELOne who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
- WINKLEA periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.