pub | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, public house, saloon, taphouse |
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pubertal | (adjective) of or related to puberty | - |
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puberty | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: pubescence |
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puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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pubes | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: loins, pubic region |
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pubescence | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: puberty |
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pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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(adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
pubic | (adjective) relating or near the pubis | - |
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pubis | (noun) one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis | Synonyms: os pubis, pubic bone |
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public | (adjective) not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole | - |
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(adjective) affecting the people or community as a whole | - |
(noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, world |
(noun) a body of people sharing some common interest | - |
publically | (adverb) in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly | Synonyms: in public, publicly |
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publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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publication | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publishing |
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(noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: issue |
(noun) the communication of something to the public; making information generally known | - |
(noun) a copy of a printed work offered for distribution | - |
publicise | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicize |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicize |
publicised | (adjective) made known; especially made widely known | Synonyms: publicized |
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publiciser | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publicist, publicizer |
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publicist | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicizer |
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publicity | (noun) the quality of being open to public view | - |
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(noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promo, promotion, promotional material |
publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
publicized | (adjective) made known; especially made widely known | Synonyms: publicised |
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publicizer | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicist |
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publicizing | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, merchandising |
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publicly | (adverb) in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly | Synonyms: in public, publically |
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(adverb) by the public or the people generally | - |
publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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(verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
(verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
publishable | (adjective) suitable for publication | - |
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published | (adjective) prepared and printed for distribution and sale | - |
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(adjective) formally made public | Synonyms: promulgated |
publisher | (noun) a firm in the publishing business | Synonyms: publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house |
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(noun) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music | - |
(noun) the proprietor of a newspaper | Synonyms: newspaper publisher |
publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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puccoon | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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(noun) perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment | Synonyms: Lithospermum caroliniense |
puce | (noun) a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red | - |
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puck | (noun) a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey | Synonyms: hockey puck |
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pucka | (adjective) absolutely first class and genuine | Synonyms: pukka |
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pucker | (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: ruck |
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(verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
(verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
(verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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puckish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked |
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puckishly | (adverb) in an appealing but bold manner | Synonyms: impishly |
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puckishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, whimsicality |
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pud | (noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pudding |
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pudding | (noun) any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed | - |
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(noun) any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes | - |
(noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pud |
puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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puddingwife | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | Synonyms: Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife |
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puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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(noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
(noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
(verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
(verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
(verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
(verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
(verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
(verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
(verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
(verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
puddler | (noun) a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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pudendal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the pudendum | - |
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pudendum | (noun) human external genital organs collectively especially of a female | - |
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pudge | (noun) a short fat person | - |
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pudginess | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, rolypoliness, tubbiness |
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pudgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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pueblo | (noun) a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States | - |
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puerile | (adjective) of or characteristic of a child | - |
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(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, juvenile |
puerility | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: childishness |
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(noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: childhood |
puerpera | (noun) a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter | - |
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puerperal | (adjective) relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth | - |
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puerperium | (noun) time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved | - |
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puff | (adjective) gathered for protruding fullness | Synonyms: puffed |
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(noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, pull |
(noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: blow |
(noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, quilt |
(noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: powderpuff |
(noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, pouffe |
(noun) exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) | - |
(noun) a light inflated pastry or puff shell | - |
(noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff of air, whiff |
(verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
(verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
(verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
(verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
(verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
(verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
(verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
(verb) make proud or conceited | - |
puffball | (noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | Synonyms: true puffball |
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(noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
puffbird | (noun) brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers | - |
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puffed | (adjective) gathered for protruding fullness | Synonyms: puff |
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puffer | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish |
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(noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab |
pufferfish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, puffer |
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(noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, sea squab |
puffery | (noun) a flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes) | - |
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puffin | (noun) any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills | - |
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puffiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness |
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(noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, swelling |
puffing | (noun) an act of forcible exhalation | Synonyms: huffing, snorting |
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(noun) blowing tobacco smoke out into the air | - |
puffy | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: bouffant |
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(adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: gusty |
(adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
pug | (noun) small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle | Synonyms: pug-dog |
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pugilism | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, fisticuffs |
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pugilist | (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: boxer |
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pugilistic | (adjective) of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | - |
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pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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(adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
pugnaciously | (adverb) in a pugnacious manner | - |
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pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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puissant | (adjective) powerful or influential | - |
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puka | (noun) small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers | Synonyms: Meryta sinclairii |
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(noun) South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Griselinia lucida |
puke | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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(noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, vomit, vomitus |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
puking | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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pukka | (adjective) absolutely first class and genuine | Synonyms: pucka |
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puku | (noun) an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck | Synonyms: Adenota vardoni |
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pul | (noun) 100 puls equal 1 afghani in Afghanistan | - |
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pula | (noun) the basic unit of money in Botswana | - |
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pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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(noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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(noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
pulchritude | (noun) physical beauty (especially of a woman) | - |
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pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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pull | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pulling |
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(noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
(noun) a sustained effort | - |
(noun) a device used for pulling something | - |
(noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: clout |
(noun) the force used in pulling | - |
(noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: twist, wrench |
(verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
(verb) take away | - |
(verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
(verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
(verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
(verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
(verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
(verb) move into a certain direction | - |
(verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
(verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
(verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
(verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
pullback | (noun) (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops) | - |
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(noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: tieback |
puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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(noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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pulling | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pull |
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pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
(verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
(verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
(verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
pullulation | (noun) a rapid and abundant increase | - |
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(noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: gemmation |
pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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pulmonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonary |
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pulp | (noun) the soft inner part of a tooth | - |
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(noun) an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper | Synonyms: pulp magazine |
(noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: mush |
(noun) a soft moist part of a fruit | Synonyms: flesh |
(noun) a mixture of cellulose fibers | - |
(verb) reduce to pulp | - |
(verb) remove the pulp from, as from a fruit | - |
pulpiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: mushiness |
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