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- PITUITAPhlegm; mucus.
- PITUITARYOf or relating to the pituitary gland.
- PITYA feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
- PIVOTA thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
- PLACATIONA process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.
- PLACEBOA dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- PLACENTAAn organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umb
- PLACENTALOf or pertaining to the placenta.
- PLACETA vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
- PLACIDcalm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- PLACIDITYThe state of being placid; peacefulness.
- PLACITA decree or dictum.
- PLAGEA region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
- PLAGIARISENon-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize.
- PLAGIARIZETo use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
- PLAGIARYThe crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
- PLAGUEThe bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- PLAIDA type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
- PLAINFlat, level.
- PLAINTA complaint.
- PLANA drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, et
- PLANEOf a surface: flat or level.
- PLANETARIUMA display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.
- PLANISHTo repeatedly hammer (a sheet of metal) so as to shape and smooth it or create a decorative indented finish.
- PLANTAThe sole of the foot.
- PLANTARRelating to the sole of the foot.
- PLANTASThe sole of the foot.
- PLANXTYAn Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.
- PLATENThe part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- PLATFORMA raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
- PLATINAplatinum.
- PLATINASplatinum.
- PLATINOIDOf or resembling platinum.
- PLATINOTYPEA method of making photographic prints using platinum salts.
- PLATINUMThe chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
- PLATONICNeither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.
- PLATONICSNeither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.
- PLAUDITA mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
- PLAUSIBLESeemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.
- PLAUSIVELaudable, praisable.
- PLEAAn appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- PLEACHTo unite by interweaving, as branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
- PLEADTo present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
- PLEBISCITEA direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.
- PLEBSplural of pleb
- PLENARYFully attended by a plenum; for everyone's attendance.
- PLENITUDEFullness; completeness.
- PLEURAEach of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
- PLEURISYInflammation of lung pleura.
- PLEURITISPleurisy (inflammation of the pleura).
- PLEXA building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
- PLEXIFORMHaving the form of a plexus.
- PLEXUSA network of anastomosing or interwoven nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels.
- PLICAA fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
- PLICATEFolded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.
- PLICATIONAn act of folding.
- PLICATUREA doubling; a fold; a plication.
- PLIGHTA dire or unfortunate situation.
- PLOVERAny of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
- PLOYA tactic, strategy, or scheme.
- PLUMThe fruit and its tree. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour. A stone-
- PLUMBA little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
- PLUMBAGOA plant of the genus Plumbago; leadwort.
- PLUMBEOUSConsisting of, or resembling, lead.
- PLUMBEROne who works in or with lead.
- PLUMBOUSOf, pertaining to, resembling, or containing lead.
- PLUMIPEDHaving feet covered with feathers.
- PLUNGETo thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- PLUPERFECTMore than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
- PLURALConsisting of or containing more than one of something.
- PLURALITYThe state of being plural.
- PLUSAnd; sum of the previous one and the following one.
- PLUTEUSA low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
- PLUVIOMETERA scientific instrument for measuring the amount of rainfall.
- PLUVIOMETRYThe scientific measurement of rainfall.
- PLUVIOUSInvolving or relating to rain; rainy.
- PODESTAA chief magistrate of various Italian republics and city-states in the Middle Ages.
- PODEXThe anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.
- POETASTERAn unskilled poet.
- POINTELA sharp instrument; any sharp-pointed thing.
- POISEA state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
- POISONA substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- POLAROf or having a pole or polarity, as: Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles. Of an
- POLITESSECivility, politeness, courtesy or gallantry; genteel politeness or an instance of this.
- POLITIQUEA politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.
- POLLINOSISAn allergy to grass and other pollen which causes cold symptoms in sufferers; hay fever.
- POLLUTIONPhysical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
- POLONIUMA rare, highly radioactive chemical element (symbol Po) with atomic number 84. An atom of this element.
- POLVERINEGlassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, used in the manufacture of fine glass.
- POLYPODYAny of many ferns of the genus Polypodium, especially common polypody.
- POLYZOARIUMA polyzoary
- POMADEA greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.
- POMEA type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
- POMEGRANATEThe fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tar
- POMICULTUREthe cultivation of fruit; fruit-growing
- POMPOSITYThe quality of being pompous; self-importance.
- PONDERTo wonder, think of deeply.
- PONDERALPertaining to weight.
- PONDERATETo have weight or influence.
- PONDEROSAA pine tree of very large size, native to western North America (Pinus ponderosa).