| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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| bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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| caliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: calliper |
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| (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
| calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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| (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
| gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| juniper | (noun) wood of a coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
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| (noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam, retem |
| (noun) coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
| 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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| 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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| semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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| semipermeable | (adjective) (of a membrane) selectively permeable | - |
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| sniper | (noun) a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place | - |
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| striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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| (noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
| (noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
| viper | (noun) venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw | - |
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| wiper | (noun) a mechanical device that cleans the windshield | Synonyms: windscreen wiper, windshield wiper, wiper blade |
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| (noun) contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet | Synonyms: contact arm, wiper arm |
| (noun) a worker who wipes | - |
| worshiper | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: believer, worshipper |
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| (noun) someone who admires too much to recognize faults | Synonyms: worshipper |