| pigfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus |
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| (noun) found around the Great Barrier Reef | Synonyms: Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish |
| piggery | (noun) a farm where pigs are raised or kept | Synonyms: pig farm |
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| piggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| piggishly | (adverb) in a piggish manner | - |
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| piggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, hoggishness |
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| piggy | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish |
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| (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piglet, shoat, shote |
| piggyback | (noun) the act of carrying something piggyback | - |
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| (adverb) on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip | Synonyms: pickaback, pig-a-back |
| (adverb) on a railroad flatcar | Synonyms: pickaback, pig-a-back |
| (verb) bring into alignment with | - |
| (verb) support on the back and shoulders | - |
| (verb) haul by railroad car | - |
| (verb) haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars | - |
| (verb) ride on someone's shoulders or back | - |
| pigheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, bullheaded |
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| pigheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, self-will, stubbornness |
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| piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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| pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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| pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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| (noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
| (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| pigmentation | (noun) coloration of living tissues by pigment | - |
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| (noun) the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings | - |
| pigmy | (noun) an unusually small individual | Synonyms: pygmy |
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| pignolia | (noun) edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America | Synonyms: pine nut, pinon nut |
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| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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| pigpen | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigsty, sty |
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| pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| pigsty | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigpen, sty |
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| pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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| pigtail | (noun) a plait of braided hair | - |
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| pigwash | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, slop, slops, swill |
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| pigweed | (noun) leaves collected from the wild | Synonyms: lamb's-quarter, wild spinach |
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| (noun) common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium album, lamb's-quarters, wild spinach |
| (noun) leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China | Synonyms: Amaranthus hypochondriacus |
| pika | (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: coney, cony, mouse hare, rock rabbit |
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| pike | (noun) any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| (noun) medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet | - |
| (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
| (noun) a sharp point (as on the end of a spear) | - |
| (noun) highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| pilaf | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaff, pilau, pilaw |
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| pilaff | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaf, pilau, pilaw |
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| pilar | (adjective) of or relating to a hair | - |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| pilaster | (noun) a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached | - |
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| pilau | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaf, pilaff, pilaw |
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| pilaw | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaf, pilaff, pilau |
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| pilchard | (noun) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | Synonyms: Sardina pilchardus, sardine |
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| (noun) small fatty fish usually canned | Synonyms: sardine |
| pile | (noun) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy | Synonyms: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor |
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| (noun) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta | Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile |
| (noun) the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave | Synonyms: nap |
| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: down |
| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks |
| (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, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| piles | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid |
| pileup | (noun) multiple collisions of vehicles | - |
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| pileus | (noun) a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom | Synonyms: cap |
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| pilewort | (noun) perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles | Synonyms: lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria |
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| pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| pilferage | (noun) the act of stealing small amounts or small articles | - |
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| pilferer | (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: sneak thief, snitcher |
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| pilgrim | (noun) someone who journeys in foreign lands | - |
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| (noun) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion | - |
| pilgrimage | (noun) a journey to a sacred place | Synonyms: pilgrim's journey |
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| piling | (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, spile, stilt |
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| pill | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception | Synonyms: anovulant, anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill |
| (noun) something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured | - |
| (noun) a unpleasant or tiresome person | - |
| pillage | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillaging, plundering |
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| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, plunder, prize, swag |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| pillaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, plundered, ransacked |
| pillager | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| pillaging | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, plundering |
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| pillar | (noun) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure | Synonyms: column |
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| (noun) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) | Synonyms: column |
| (noun) a fundamental principle or practice | - |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: mainstay |
| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: column, tower |
| pillared | (adjective) having pillars | - |
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| pillbox | (noun) a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete) | - |
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| (noun) a small case for holding pills | - |
| (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: toque, turban |
| pillion | (noun) a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc. | - |
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| pillock | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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| pillory | (noun) a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn | - |
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| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| pillow | (noun) a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person | - |
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| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
| pillowcase | (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, slip |
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| pillwort | (noun) European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps | Synonyms: Pilularia globulifera |
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| pilocarpine | (noun) cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma | - |
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| pilose | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilous |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| pilosity | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: hairiness |
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| pilot | (noun) small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner | Synonyms: pilot burner, pilot light |
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| (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, cowcatcher, fender |
| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, original |
| (noun) a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors | Synonyms: pilot film, pilot program |
| (noun) someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight | Synonyms: airplane pilot |
| (noun) a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor | - |
| (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, fly |
| (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: navigate |
| pilotage | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, piloting |
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| (noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: piloting |
| pilotfish | (noun) small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas | Synonyms: Naucrates ductor |
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| pilothouse | (noun) an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated | Synonyms: wheelhouse |
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| piloting | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, pilotage |
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| (noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: pilotage |
| pilotless | (adjective) lacking a pilot | - |
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| pilous | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilose |
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| pilus | (noun) hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism | - |
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| (noun) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | Synonyms: hair |
| pimento | (noun) fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked | Synonyms: pimiento |
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| (noun) plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | Synonyms: bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
| pimiento | (noun) fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked | Synonyms: pimento |
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| (noun) plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | Synonyms: bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
| pimozide | (noun) the most commonly used diphenylbutyl piperidine | - |
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| pimp | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, ponce, procurer |
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| (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, procure |
| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| pimple | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: hickey, zit |
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| pimpled | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimply, pustulate |
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| pimply | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pustulate |
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| pin | (noun) a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things | - |
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| (noun) a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment | - |
| (noun) axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns | Synonyms: pivot |
| (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
| (noun) a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target | Synonyms: bowling pin |
| (noun) flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green | Synonyms: flag |
| (noun) cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown | Synonyms: pin tumbler |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: peg, stick |
| (noun) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. | Synonyms: peg |
| (noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) (chess) immobilize a piece | - |
| (verb) attach or fasten with pins | - |
| (verb) pierce with a pin | - |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, trap |
| pinafore | (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: jumper, pinny |
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| pinata | (noun) plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy; suspended from a height for blindfolded children to break with sticks | - |
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| pinball | (noun) a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets | Synonyms: pinball game |
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| pincer | (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, claw, nipper |
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| (noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, tweezer |
| pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
| (noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
| (noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
| (noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
| (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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| (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold | - |
| pinche | (noun) South American tamarin with a tufted head | Synonyms: Leontocebus oedipus |
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| pinched | (adjective) as if squeezed uncomfortably tight | - |
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| (adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: adenoidal, nasal |
| (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious |
| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted |
| pinchgut | (noun) a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) | - |
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| pincushion | (noun) a small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use | - |
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| pindolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Visken) used in treating hypertension | Synonyms: Visken |
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| pine | (noun) a coniferous tree | Synonyms: pine tree, true pine |
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| (noun) straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus | - |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen |
| pineal | (adjective) relating to the pineal body | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a pine cone | - |
| pinealoma | (noun) tumor of the pineal gland | - |
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| pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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| (noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
| pinecone | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a pine tree | - |
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| pinesap | (noun) fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys | Synonyms: false beachdrops, Monotropa hypopithys |
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| pinetum | (noun) an area planted with pine trees or related conifers | - |
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