pe | (noun) the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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pea | (noun) seed of a pea plant used for food | - |
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(noun) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds | Synonyms: pea plant |
(noun) the fruit or seed of a pea plant | - |
peace | (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: pacification, peace treaty |
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(noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
(noun) the state prevailing during the absence of war | - |
(noun) harmonious relations; freedom from disputes | - |
(noun) the general security of public places | Synonyms: public security |
peaceable | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceful |
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(adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: pacific |
(adjective) inclined or disposed to peace | Synonyms: peace-loving |
peaceableness | (noun) a state that is calm and tranquil | Synonyms: peacefulness |
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peaceably | (adverb) in a peaceable manner | Synonyms: pacifically |
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peaceful | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceable |
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(adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: passive |
peacefully | (adverb) in a peaceful manner | - |
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peacefulness | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, repose, serenity |
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(noun) a state that is calm and tranquil | Synonyms: peaceableness |
peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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(noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
(noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
peacekeeping | (adjective) of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces | - |
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(noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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peacenik | (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: dove |
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peacetime | (noun) a period of time during which there is no war | - |
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peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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(noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
(noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
(verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
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peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
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(adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
peacoat | (noun) a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket | Synonyms: pea jacket |
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peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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(noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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peag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: wampum, wampumpeag |
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peahen | (noun) female peafowl | - |
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peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
(noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
(noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
(noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
(verb) to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity | Synonyms: top out |
peaked | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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(adjective) having or rising to a peak | - |
peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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peal | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: pealing, roll, rolling |
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(verb) ring recurrently | - |
(verb) sound loudly and sonorously | Synonyms: ring |
pealing | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, roll, rolling |
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pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
peanut | (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: insignificant |
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(noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
(noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
(noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
(noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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pear | (noun) sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties | - |
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(noun) Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: pear tree, Pyrus communis |
pearl | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, ivory, off-white |
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(noun) a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel | - |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, drop |
(verb) gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | - |
pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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pearlite | (noun) a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron | - |
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pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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pearly | (adjective) of a white the color of pearls | Synonyms: pearly-white |
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(noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |
peasant | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, provincial |
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(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke |
(noun) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers | - |
peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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peasecod | (noun) husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas | Synonyms: pea pod |
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peat | (noun) partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried | - |
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peaty | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat | - |
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peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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peavy | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavey |
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peba | (noun) having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay | Synonyms: Dasypus novemcinctus, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo |
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pebble | (noun) a small smooth rounded rock | - |
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pebbly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, shingly |
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pebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibits or 2^50 bits | Synonyms: Pibit |
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pebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, petabyte, PiB |
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pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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(noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
(noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
peccable | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccant |
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peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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peccant | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccable |
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peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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(noun) bite by a bird | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
(verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
(verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird | Synonyms: pick up |
(verb) eat like a bird | Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
(verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: smack |
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, pick |
pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
pecopteris | (noun) Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb | - |
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pecs | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
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pectic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from pectin | - |
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pectin | (noun) any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams | - |
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pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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pectineal | (adjective) of or relating to the pubis | - |
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pectoral | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: thoracic |
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(noun) an adornment worn on the chest or breast | Synonyms: pectoral medallion |
(noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
pectoralis | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral, pectoral muscle |
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pectus | (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, thorax |
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peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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(adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
(adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
(adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
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 |
peculiarly | (adverb) in a manner differing from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curiously, inexplicably, oddly |
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(adverb) uniquely or characteristically | Synonyms: particularly |
(adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: especially, particularly, specially |
pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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pedagog | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagogue |
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pedagogic | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogical |
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pedagogical | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogic |
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pedagogically | (adverb) in a didactic manner | Synonyms: didactically |
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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 | (adjective) of or relating to the feet | - |
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(noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, treadle |
(noun) a sustained bass note | Synonyms: pedal point |
(verb) operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument | - |
(verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel |
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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pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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pedantically | (adverb) in a pedantic manner | - |
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pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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pedate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having radiating lobes, each deeply cleft or divided | - |
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(adjective) having or resembling a foot | - |
peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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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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pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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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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