| 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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