| afterpiece | (noun) a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play | - |
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| altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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| centerpiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centrepiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centrepiece |
| centrepiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centerpiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centerpiece |
| cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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| copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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| cowpie | (noun) fecal matter of a cow | Synonyms: cow pie |
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| crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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| (noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| earpiece | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, headphone, phone |
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| eyepiece | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: ocular |
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| frontispiece | (noun) front illustration facing the title page of a book | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental facade | - |
| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| groupie | (noun) an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) | - |
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| hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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| headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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| (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
| hippie | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippy, hipster |
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| hippies | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hipsters |
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| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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| hyperpiesia | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesis |
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| hyperpiesis | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesia |
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| impiety | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiousness |
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| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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| kelpie | (noun) an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears | - |
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| (noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpy |
| koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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| magpie | (noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: pack rat, scavenger |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, prater, spouter |
| mantelpiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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| masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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| (noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
| mouthpiece | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: embouchure |
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| (noun) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | - |
| (noun) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | - |
| (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: gumshield |
| (noun) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouth |
| neckpiece | (noun) an article of apparel worn about the neck | - |
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| nosepiece | (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: bridge |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the nose | - |
| (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: noseband |
| occupier | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, resident |
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| (noun) a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country | - |
| percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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| photocopier | (noun) a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies | - |
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| pie | (noun) dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top | - |
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| piece | (noun) a separate part of a whole | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: man |
| (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: firearm, small-arm |
| (noun) a work of art of some artistic value | Synonyms: art object, objet d'art |
| (noun) an item that is an instance of some type | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a distance | - |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music |
| (noun) an artistic or literary composition | - |
| (noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a portion of a natural object | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, spell, while |
| piecework | (noun) work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
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| piedmont | (noun) a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land | - |
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| pieplant | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: rhubarb |
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| pier | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, wharf, wharfage |
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| (noun) a support for two adjacent bridge spans | - |
| (noun) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) | - |
| pierid | (noun) any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs | Synonyms: pierid butterfly |
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| pieta | (noun) a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus | - |
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| pietism | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: religionism, religiosity, religiousism |
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| piety | (noun) righteousness by virtue of being pious | Synonyms: piousness |
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| piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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| piezometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures | - |
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| porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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| potpie | (noun) deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings | - |
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| rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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| scrapie | (noun) a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | - |
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| sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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| (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
| showpiece | (noun) the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection | Synonyms: collector's item, piece de resistance |
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| spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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| spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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| spiel | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, patter |
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| tailpiece | (noun) appendage added to extend the length of something | - |
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| timepiece | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timekeeper |
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| workpiece | (noun) work consisting of a piece of metal being machined | - |
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| yuppie | (noun) a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style | - |
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