| 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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