| 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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