| 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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