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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

piquant
salty adjective engagingly stimulating or provocative; `a piquant wit`; `salty language`

piquantly
spicily adverb with strong spices; in a spicy manner; `the soup was spicily flavored`

pique
noun tightly woven fabric with raised cords

Piqueria
genus Piqueria noun small genus of tropical American perennial herbs or subshrubs with white to pale yellow flowers; often included in genus Stevia

piquet
noun a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards

piracy
buccaneering noun hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it; `air piracy`

Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello noun Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)

Piranga
genus Piranga noun a genus of Thraupidae

piranha
pirana noun small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

pirate
pirate ship noun a ship that is manned by pirates

piratical
adjective characteristic of pirates; `piratical attackers`

piratically
adverb in a piratical manner; `the piratically published edition of his book`

pirogi
piroshki noun small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried

piroplasm
noun minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals

pirouette
noun (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet)

piroxicam
Feldene noun a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Feldene) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions

pis aller
last resort noun French for `worst going`

Pisa
noun a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower

pisang wax
noun a wax obtained from the leaves of a plantain

pisanosaur
pisanosaurus noun primitive dinosaur found in Argentina

piscatorial
piscatory adjective relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing; `a piscatory life`

Pisces
Pisces the Fishes noun the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

Piscidia
genus Piscidia noun genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons

piscine
adjective of or relating to fish

piscivorous
adjective feeding on fishes

pisha paysha
noun (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner

pisiform
pisiform bone noun a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral

Pisonia
genus Pisonia noun genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America

Pisonia aculeata
noun small spiny West Indian tree

piss-up
noun vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking

pisser
noun a very disagreeable difficulty

Pissis
noun a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,241 feet high)

pistachio
pistachio nut noun nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel

Pistacia
genus Pistacia noun a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit

piste
noun a ski run densely packed with snow

pistia
water lettuce noun pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes

pistil
noun the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma

pistillate
adjective having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant

pistillode
noun a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower

pistol
handgun noun a firearm that is held and fired with one hand

pistol grip
noun a handle (as of a gun or saw) shaped like the butt of a pistol

pistoleer
noun someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed)

piston
plunger noun mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion

piston chamber
noun a chamber within which piston moves

piston ring
noun seal consisting of a split metal ring that seals the gap between a piston and the cylinder wall

piston rod
noun connecting rod that moves or is moved by a piston

Pisum
genus Pisum noun small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas

pit
quarry noun a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; `a British term for `quarry` is `stone pit``

pit
noun a trap in the form of a concealed hole

pit of the stomach
epigastric fossa noun a slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus)

pit stop
noun a brief stop at a pit during an automobile race to take on fuel or service the car

pit viper
noun New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head

pit-a-pat
pitty-patty adverb describing a rhythmic beating; `his heart went pit-a-pat`

pita
pocket bread noun usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling

pitahaya
noun highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach

pitahaya cactus
pitahaya 1 Acanthocereus tetragonus noun cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit

pitanga
Eugenia uniflora noun Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida

pitch
noun the action or manner of throwing something; `his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor`

pitch
slant noun degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; `the roof had a steep pitch`

pitch apple
strangler fig 1 Clusia rosea noun a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers

pitch pine
Pinus rigida noun large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine

pitch pipe
noun a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency; used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing

pitch shot
noun a high approach shot in golf

pitched
adjective set at a slant; `a pitched rather than a flat roof`

pitched battle
noun a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place

pitcher
mound noun the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; `he has played every position except pitcher`; `they have a southpaw on the mound`

pitcher plant
noun any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales

pitcher sage
Sphacele calycina noun California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white flowers

pitcher-shaped
adjective shaped in the form of a pitcher

pitchfork
noun a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay

pitching
noun (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team

pitching change
noun replacing a pitcher in baseball

pitching coach
noun an assistant baseball coach in charge of pitchers

pitching wedge
noun a wedge used to loft the golf ball over obstacles

pitchstone
noun dark acid granitic glass

pitchy
resinous adjective having the characteristics of pitch or tar

piteously
adverb in a piteous manner

pitfall
booby trap noun an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty

pitfall
noun a trap in the form of a concealed hole

pith
noun soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants

pith hat
pith helmet noun a lightweight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun

pithead
noun the entrance to a coal mine

Pithecanthropus
Pithecanthropus erectus noun former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

Pithecellobium
genus Pithecellobium noun thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia

Pithecia
genus Pithecia noun sakis

pithily
sententiously adverb in a pithy sententious manner; `she expressed herself pithily`

pithy
sententious adjective concise and full of meaning; `welcomed her pithy comments`; `the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams`- Hervey Allen

pitiably
adverb in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion; `the sick child cried pathetically`

pitifully
adverb to a pitiful degree; `wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women`

pitiless
remorseless adjective without mercy or pity; `an act of ruthless ferocity`; `a monster of remorseless cruelty`

pitilessness
ruthlessness noun mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity

Pitman
noun English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)

piton
noun a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold

Pitot
Henri Pitot noun French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771)

Pitot tube
Pitot noun measuring instrument consisting of a right-angled tube with an open end that is directed in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to measure the velocity of fluid flow

Pitot-static tube
Pitot head noun measuring instrument consisting of a combined Pitot tube and static tube that measures total and static pressure; used in aircraft to measure airspeed

pitprop
noun a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine

pitsaw
noun a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below

Pitt
William Pitt noun English statesman who brought the Seven Years` War to an end (1708-1778)

Pitt
Pitt the Younger noun English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)