| pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| peso | (noun) the basic unit of money in Colombia; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Colombian peso |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cuban peso |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in the Dominican Republic; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Dominican peso |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Mexico; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Mexican peso |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in the Philippines; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Philippine peso |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Uruguay; equal to 100 centesimos | Synonyms: Uruguayan peso |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Chile; equal to 100 centesimos | Synonyms: Chilean peso |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Guinea-Bissau; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Guinea-Bissau peso |
| pessary | (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, diaphragm |
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| pessimal | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimum |
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| pessimism | (noun) a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that things will turn out badly | - |
| pessimist | (noun) a person who expects the worst | - |
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| pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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| pessimistically | (adverb) with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner | - |
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| pessimum | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimal |
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| pest | (noun) any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. | - |
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| (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer |
| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pestilence, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pestilence, pestis, plague |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| pestered | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, vexed |
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| pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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| pestering | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| pesthole | (noun) a breeding ground for epidemic disease | - |
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| pesthouse | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, lazaretto |
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| pesticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) | - |
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| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
| pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| pestilential | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey |
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| pestis | (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, plague |
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| pestle | (noun) a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar | - |
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| (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pounder |
| (noun) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp |
| (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
| pesto | (noun) a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil | - |
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| pet | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferent, preferred |
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| (noun) a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement | - |
| (noun) a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) | - |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite |
| (verb) stroke or caress gently | - |
| (verb) stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking | - |
| petabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits | Synonyms: Pb, Pbit |
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| petabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, pebibyte, PiB |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes | Synonyms: PB |
| petaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: PFLOPS |
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| petal | (noun) part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored | Synonyms: flower petal |
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| petaled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petalled, petalous |
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| petalled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalous |
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| petalless | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: apetalous |
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| petallike | (adjective) resembling a petal | Synonyms: petal-like |
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| petaloid | (adjective) resembling a flower petal | - |
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| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| petard | (noun) an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall | - |
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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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| petechia | (noun) a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) | - |
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| petfood | (noun) food prepared for animal pets | Synonyms: pet-food, pet food |
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| petiole | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: leafstalk |
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| petiolule | (noun) the stalk of a leaflet | - |
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| petite | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, tiny |
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| (noun) a garment size for short or slender women | - |
| petiteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, minuteness, tininess, weeness |
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| petitio | (noun) the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question | Synonyms: petitio principii |
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| petition | (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: postulation, request |
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| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, prayer |
| (verb) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing | - |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| petitioner | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: requester, suppliant, supplicant |
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| (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: suer |
| petrel | (noun) relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land | - |
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| petrifaction | (noun) a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form | - |
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| (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrification |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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| petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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| (verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| petrissage | (noun) massage of the skin which is gently lifted and squeezed | - |
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| petrochemical | (noun) any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas | - |
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| petroglyph | (noun) a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people) | - |
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| petrol | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasolene, gasoline |
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| petrolatum | (noun) a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication | Synonyms: mineral jelly, petroleum jelly |
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| petroleum | (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, oil, rock oil |
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| petrology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification | Synonyms: lithology |
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| petrous | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: stonelike |
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| petter | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: fondler |
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| petticoat | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, underskirt |
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| petticoated | (adjective) wearing or furnished with a petticoat | - |
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| pettifog | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, quibble, squabble |
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| pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
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| (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| pettily | (adverb) in a petty way | - |
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| pettiness | (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: puniness, slightness, triviality |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, smallness |
| (noun) narrowness of mind or ideas or views | - |
| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
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| pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| pettishly | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, petulantly, testily |
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| pettishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| petty | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, secondary, subaltern |
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| (adjective) contemptibly narrow in outlook | Synonyms: small-minded |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (noun) larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) | Synonyms: petit larceny, petty larceny |
| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| petulantly | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, testily |
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| petunia | (noun) any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers | - |
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| pew | (noun) long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation | Synonyms: church bench |
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| pewee | (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee |
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| pewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, peewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee |
| (noun) small black-headed European gull | Synonyms: blackcap, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull |
| pewter | (noun) any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead) | - |
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| peyote | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: mescaline |
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| (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal |