bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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blowpipe | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowtube |
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(noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowtube |
drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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epiphany | (noun) a divine manifestation | - |
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epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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epiphonema | (noun) a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said. | - |
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epiphora | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epistrophe |
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epiphyllum | (noun) any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers | Synonyms: orchid cactus |
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epiphysis | (noun) the end of a long bone; initially separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage that eventually ossifies so the parts become fused | - |
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(noun) a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin | Synonyms: epiphysis cerebri, pineal body, pineal gland |
epiphyte | (noun) plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it | Synonyms: aerophyte, air plant, epiphytic plant |
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epiplexis | (noun) a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them | - |
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epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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hawsepipe | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsehole |
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hemiepiphyte | (noun) a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | Synonyms: semiepiphyte |
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hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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(noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
(noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |
hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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panpipe | (noun) a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | Synonyms: pandean pipe, syrinx |
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parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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pip | (noun) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) | Synonyms: spot |
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(noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: blip, radar target |
(noun) a small hard seed found in some fruits | - |
(noun) a disease of poultry | - |
(noun) a minor nonspecific ailment | - |
pipage | (noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipe, piping |
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(noun) a fee charged for the use of pipes | - |
pipal | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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pipe | (noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipage, piping |
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(noun) a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco | Synonyms: tobacco pipe |
(noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipework |
(noun) a tubular wind instrument | - |
(noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: tube |
pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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pipefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: needlefish |
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pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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pipeful | (noun) the quantity of tobacco that can be smoked in a pipe at one time | - |
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pipeline | (noun) a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | Synonyms: line |
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(noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: grapevine, word of mouth |
piper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: bagpiper |
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piperacillin | (noun) a synthetic type of penicillin antibiotic (trade name Pipracil) used for moderate to severe infections | Synonyms: Pipracil |
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piperazine | (noun) vermifuge used to treat infestations by roundworms or pinworms | - |
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piperin | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperine |
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piperine | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperin |
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piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
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pipet | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipette |
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pipette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipet |
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pipework | (noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipe |
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pipewort | (noun) aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers | Synonyms: Eriocaulon aquaticum |
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piping | (noun) playing a pipe or the bagpipes | - |
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(noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipage, pipe |
(noun) a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems | - |
pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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pipit | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: lark, titlark |
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pipsissewa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila | Synonyms: prince's pine |
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pipul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, sacred fig |
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sandpiper | (noun) any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers | - |
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semiepiphyte | (noun) a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | Synonyms: hemiepiphyte |
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standpipe | (noun) a vertical pipe | - |
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stovepipe | (noun) chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue | - |
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(noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, top hat, topper |
stovepiping | (noun) retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers | - |
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tailpipe | (noun) a pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car | - |
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windpipe | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: trachea |
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