| 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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