| pit | (noun) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate | Synonyms: quarry, stone pit |
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| (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: colliery |
| (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pitfall |
| (noun) lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers | Synonyms: orchestra pit |
| (noun) (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled | - |
| (noun) (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on | - |
| (noun) an enclosure in which animals are made to fight | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition |
| (noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: cavity |
| (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: endocarp, stone |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: fossa |
| (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
| pita | (noun) usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling | Synonyms: pocket bread |
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| pitahaya | (noun) highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach | - |
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| (noun) cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit | Synonyms: Acanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya cactus |
| pitanga | (noun) Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida | Synonyms: Eugenia uniflora, Surinam cherry |
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| pitch | (noun) the action or manner of throwing something | - |
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| (noun) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump | Synonyms: auction pitch |
| (noun) a high approach shot in golf | Synonyms: pitch shot |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: delivery |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitching |
| (noun) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration | - |
| (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: rake, slant |
| (noun) promotion by means of an argument and demonstration | Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk |
| (noun) a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk) | - |
| (noun) a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer | Synonyms: soccer field |
| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: tar |
| (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
| (verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
| (verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
| pitchblende | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: uraninite |
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| pitched | (adjective) (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) set at a slant | - |
| pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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| (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
| (noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
| pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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| (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
| pitching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team | - |
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| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| pitchman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar |
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| (noun) an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something | - |
| pitchstone | (noun) dark acid granitic glass | - |
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| pitchy | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, sooty |
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| (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: resinous, resiny, tarry |
| piteous | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| piteously | (adverb) in a piteous manner | - |
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| pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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| (noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |
| pith | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, substance, sum |
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| (noun) soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants | - |
| (verb) remove the pith from (a plant) | - |
| pithead | (noun) the entrance to a coal mine | - |
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| pithily | (adverb) in a pithy sententious manner | Synonyms: sententiously |
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| pithiness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, concision, succinctness |
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| pithouse | (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, dugout, pit-house |
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| pithy | (adjective) concise and full of meaning | Synonyms: sententious |
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| pitiable | (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pathetic, pitiful |
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| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| pitiably | (adverb) in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion | Synonyms: pathetically |
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| pitiful | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pathetic, pitiable |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched |
| pitifully | (adverb) to a pitiful degree | - |
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| pitiless | (adjective) deficient in humane and kindly feelings | Synonyms: unkind |
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| (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: remorseless, ruthless, unpitying |
| pitilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: mercilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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| pitilessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity | Synonyms: ruthlessness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, ruthlessness |
| pitman | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, collier |
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| piton | (noun) a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold | - |
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| pitprop | (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: sprag |
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| pitsaw | (noun) a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below | - |
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| pitta | (noun) any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills | - |
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| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| pitted | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed |
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| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
| pity | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: compassion |
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| (noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: shame |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: commiseration, pathos, ruth |
| (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: compassionate, condole with, feel for, sympathize with |
| pityingly | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: compassionately |
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| pityriasis | (noun) any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin | - |
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