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- PISIFORMResembling a pea or peas in size and shape
- PISOLITEA sedimentary rock formed from pisoids
- PISOLITHA pisoid.
- PITTANCEA small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
- 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.
- PLAITA flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
- 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.
- PLANTAn organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- 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.
- PLASTERA paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- PLATANA planetree.
- PLATENThe part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is 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.
- PLEBEA plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
- PLEBEIANA member of the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome.
- 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
- PLEDGETo make a solemn promise (to do something).
- PLENARYFully attended by a plenum; for everyone's attendance.
- PLENITUDEFullness; completeness.
- PLENUMA space that is completely filled with matter.
- 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.
- PLOWSHAREAlternative spelling of ploughshare.
- 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.
- PLUMBICOf, pertaining to, resembling, or containing lead.
- PLUMBOUSOf, pertaining to, resembling, or containing lead.
- PLUMIPEDHaving feet covered with feathers.
- PLUMOSEHaving feathers or plumes.
- PLUMULEThe first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.
- 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.
- POCULIFORMHaving the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.
- 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.
- POINTA small dot or mark. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- 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