| pi | (noun) the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846... | - |
| pia | (noun) perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch | Synonyms: Indian arrowroot, Tacca leontopetaloides, Tacca pinnatifida |
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| piaffe | (noun) a cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot | - |
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| pianism | (noun) performance by or technique of a pianist | - |
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| pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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| (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: piano |
| (adverb) a direction in music; to be played very softly | Synonyms: very softly |
| pianist | (noun) a person who plays the piano | Synonyms: piano player |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| piano | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: soft |
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| (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, pianoforte |
| (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: pianissimo |
| (adverb) used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly | Synonyms: softly |
| pianoforte | (noun) a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | Synonyms: forte-piano, piano |
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| piaster | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piastre |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piastre |
| piastre | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piaster |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piaster |
| piazza | (noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: place, plaza |
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| pibgorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, stockhorn |
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| pibroch | (noun) martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes | - |
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| pic | (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, picture |
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| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, picture, picture show |
| pica | (noun) a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing | Synonyms: em, pica em |
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| (noun) an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | - |
| picador | (noun) the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low | - |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| picaresque | (adjective) involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction | - |
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| picayune | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| piccalilli | (noun) relish of chopped pickled cucumbers and green peppers and onion | - |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccolo | (noun) a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute | - |
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| pichi | (noun) Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers; leaves yield a tonic and diuretic | Synonyms: Fabiana imbricata |
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| pichiciago | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciego |
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| pichiciego | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago |
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| pick | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, selection |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body | - |
| (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
| (noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material | - |
| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
| (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, selection |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: cream |
| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: picking |
| (verb) remove in small bits | - |
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| pickaback | (adverb) on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip | Synonyms: pig-a-back, piggyback |
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| (adverb) on a railroad flatcar | Synonyms: pig-a-back, piggyback |
| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pickax | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickaxe |
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| pickaxe | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickax |
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| pickelhaube | (noun) a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers | - |
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| picker | (noun) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, selector |
| pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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| (noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| picket | (noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: piquet |
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| (noun) a wooden strip forming part of a fence | Synonyms: pale |
| (noun) a vehicle performing sentinel duty | - |
| (noun) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack | - |
| (noun) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| picking | (noun) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.) | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: pick |
| pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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| pickle | (noun) vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle |
| (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
| pickled | (adjective) (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
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| picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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| pickpocket | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, dip |
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| pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
| (noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
| (noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
| (noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
| (noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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| picnic | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion | - |
| (noun) a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | Synonyms: field day, outing |
| (verb) eat alfresco, in the open air | - |
| picnicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picknicker |
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| picofarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one trillionth of a farad | - |
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| picometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromicron, picometre |
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| picometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromicron, picometer |
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| picornavirus | (noun) a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat | - |
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| picosecond | (noun) one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond | - |
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| picot | (noun) an edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon | - |
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| picovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one trillionth of a volt | - |
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| pictograph | (noun) a graphic character used in picture writing | - |
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| pictographic | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the use of pictographs | - |
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| pictorial | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictural |
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| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, vivid |
| (noun) a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures | - |
| pictorially | (adverb) in a pictorial manner | - |
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| pictural | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictorial |
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| picture | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, image |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: painting |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, pic |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: impression, mental picture |
| (noun) a typical example of some state or quality | - |
| (noun) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text | Synonyms: pictorial matter |
| (noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: video |
| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: scene |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| pictured | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, portrayed |
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| (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: envisioned, visualised, visualized |
| picturesque | (adjective) suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture | - |
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| (adjective) strikingly expressive | - |
| picturesquely | (adverb) in a picturesque manner | - |
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| picturesqueness | (noun) visually vivid and pleasing | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid | - |
| picturing | (noun) visual representation as by photography or painting | Synonyms: pictorial representation |
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| (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: envisioning |
| picul | (noun) a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry) | - |
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| piculet | (noun) small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers | - |
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| piddle | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piss, urine, water, weewee |
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| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
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| piddock | (noun) marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells | - |
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| pidgin | (noun) an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages | - |
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| pie | (noun) dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top | - |
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| piebald | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| piece | (noun) a separate part of a whole | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: man |
| (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: firearm, small-arm |
| (noun) a work of art of some artistic value | Synonyms: art object, objet d'art |
| (noun) an item that is an instance of some type | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a distance | - |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music |
| (noun) an artistic or literary composition | - |
| (noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a portion of a natural object | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, spell, while |
| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
| (verb) join during spinning | - |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
| piecemeal | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise |
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| (adverb) a little bit at a time | Synonyms: bit by bit, in stages, little by little |
| piecework | (noun) work paid for according to the quantity produced | - |
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| pied | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| piedmont | (noun) a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land | - |
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| pieplant | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: rhubarb |
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| pier | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, wharf, wharfage |
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| (noun) a support for two adjacent bridge spans | - |
| (noun) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) | - |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| pierced | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured |
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| piercing | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, stabbing |
| piercingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, bitterly |
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| (adverb) in a shrill voice | Synonyms: shrilly |
| pierid | (noun) any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs | Synonyms: pierid butterfly |
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| pieta | (noun) a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus | - |
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| pietism | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: religionism, religiosity, religiousism |
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| pietistic | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistical |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| pietistical | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistic |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| piety | (noun) righteousness by virtue of being pious | Synonyms: piousness |
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| piezoelectric | (adjective) relating to or involving piezoelectricity | - |
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| piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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| piezometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures | - |
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| piffle | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: balderdash, fiddle-faddle |
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| (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| piffling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, trivial |
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| pig | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, hog, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace | - |
| (noun) mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast | Synonyms: pig bed |
| (noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: hog |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, fuzz |
| (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: slob, sloven, slovenly person |
| (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: farrow |
| (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, raven |
| (verb) live like a pig, in squalor | Synonyms: pig it |
| pigboat | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: sub, submarine |
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| pigeon | (noun) wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs | - |
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| pigeonhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: cubbyhole |
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| (noun) a specific (often simplistic) category | - |
| (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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