| 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 |
| pendragon | (noun) the supreme war chief of the ancient Britons | - |
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| pendulum | (noun) an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity | - |
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| peneplain | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplane |
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| peneplane | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplain |
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| penetrability | (noun) the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: perviousness |
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| penetralium | (noun) the innermost parts | - |
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| penetration | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: incursion |
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| (noun) the act of entering into or through something | - |
| (noun) the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman | - |
| (noun) the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) | - |
| (noun) the ability to make way into or through something | - |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: insight |
| penetrator | (noun) an intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance) | - |
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| pengo | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Hungary until it was replaced by the forint in 1946 | - |
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| penguin | (noun) short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers | - |
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| penicillamine | (noun) a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis | Synonyms: Cuprimine |
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| penicillin | (noun) any of various antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases | - |
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| penicillinase | (noun) enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic | Synonyms: beta-lactamase |
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| peninsula | (noun) a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
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| penis | (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: member, phallus |
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| penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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| penitent | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) | - |
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| penitentiary | (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
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| penknife | (noun) a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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| penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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| pennant | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennon, streamer, waft |
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| (noun) a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering) | - |
| (noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: crown |
| penne | (noun) pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends | - |
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| penni | (noun) 100 pennia formerly equaled 1 markka in Finland | - |
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| pennilessness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, penuriousness |
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| penning | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, writing |
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| pennon | (noun) wing of a bird | Synonyms: pinion |
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| (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, streamer, waft |
| pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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| pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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| penny | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: cent, centime |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound | - |
| pennycress | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi | - |
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| pennyroyal | (noun) Eurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves; yields an aromatic oil | Synonyms: Mentha pulegium |
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| (noun) erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine | Synonyms: American pennyroyal, Hedeoma pulegioides |
| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| pennywhistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: tin whistle, whistle |
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| pennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a penny | Synonyms: penn'orth |
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| penoche | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panocha, panoche, penuche |
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| penologist | (noun) a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management | - |
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| penology | (noun) the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation | Synonyms: poenology |
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| penoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, pennoncelle |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| pension | (noun) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working | - |
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| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |