| peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| (noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |
| pedagog | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagogue |
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| pedagogics | (noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching method |
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| pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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| pedagogy | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, teaching |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, teaching |
| (noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogics, teaching method |
| pedal | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, treadle |
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| (noun) a sustained bass note | Synonyms: pedal point |
| pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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| pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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| pedant | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, scholastic |
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| pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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| peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
| peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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| pedelec | (noun) a bicycle built with a motor to aid the cyclist to turn the pedals | - |
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| pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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| pederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: paederasty |
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| pedesis | (noun) the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid | Synonyms: Brownian motion, Brownian movement |
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| pedestal | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, stand |
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| (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, plinth |
| (noun) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) | - |
| pedestrian | (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
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| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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| pediatrist | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician |
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| pedicab | (noun) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire | Synonyms: cycle rickshaw |
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| pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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| pedicle | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicel |
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| pediculicide | (noun) a chemical agent that kills lice | - |
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| pediculosis | (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: lousiness |
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| pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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| pedigree | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
| (noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
| pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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| pedlar | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pitchman |
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| pedodontist | (noun) a dentist who specializes in the care of children's teeth | - |
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| pedology | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pediatrics |
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| pedometer | (noun) measuring instrument for recording the number of steps taken in walking | - |
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| pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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| pedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: paedophilia |
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| peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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| (noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
| (noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
| pedwood | (noun) European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers | Synonyms: blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, red dogwood |
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| pee | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: peeing, piss, pissing |
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| (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: piddle, piss, urine, water, weewee |
| peeing | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, piss, pissing |
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| peek | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peep |
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| peekaboo | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: bopeep |
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| peel | (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: skin |
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| peeler | (noun) a device for peeling vegetables or fruits | - |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables | - |
| peeling | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, shedding |
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| peen | (noun) the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes) | - |
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| peep | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peek |
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| (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: cheep |
| peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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| (noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
| (noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
| peephole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, spyhole |
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| peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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| (noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
| peepul | (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, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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| peer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, match |
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| (noun) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage | - |
| peerage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: baronage |
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| peeress | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, noblewoman |
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| peerlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: matchlessness |
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| peeve | (noun) an annoyed or irritated mood | - |
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| peevishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance |
| peewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
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| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, runt, shrimp |
| peewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, pewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
| peg | (noun) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface | Synonyms: nog |
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| (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
| (noun) regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, pegleg, wooden leg |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: pin, stick |
| (noun) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. | Synonyms: pin |
| pegboard | (noun) a board perforated with regularly spaced holes into which pegs can be fitted | - |
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| pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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| pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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| peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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| pekan | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher, fisher cat, Martes pennanti |
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| pekoe | (noun) a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java | Synonyms: orange pekoe |
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| pel | (noun) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot) | Synonyms: picture element, pixel |
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| pelage | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: coat |
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| pelecypod | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, lamellibranch |
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| pelf | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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| peliosis | (noun) any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | Synonyms: purpura |
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| pelisse | (noun) a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur | - |
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| pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
| pellucidness | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidity |
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| pelmet | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, valance, valance board |
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| pelota | (noun) a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket | Synonyms: jai alai |
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| pelt | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, skin |
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| (noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: fur |
| pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
| pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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| peludo | (noun) Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts | Synonyms: Euphractus sexcinctus, poyou |
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| pelvimeter | (noun) measuring instrument for performing pelvimetry | - |
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| pelvimetry | (noun) measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible) | - |
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| pelvis | (noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle |
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| (noun) a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | Synonyms: renal pelvis |
| pelycosaur | (noun) large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America | - |
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| pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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| pemmican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemican |
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| pemphigus | (noun) a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane | - |
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| pen | (noun) female swan | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement with a point from which ink flows | - |
| (noun) an enclosure for confining livestock | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: penitentiary |
| (noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: playpen |
| penalisation | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalization, penalty, punishment |
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| penalization | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalty, punishment |
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| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| (noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
| (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
| penchant | (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: predilection, preference, taste |
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| pencil | (noun) a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face | - |
| (noun) a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point | - |
| (noun) graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication | - |
| pendant | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendent |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendent |
| pendent | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendant |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendant |