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Palification
The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
Pandit
Same as .
Panhandle State
West Virginia; -- a nickname.
Panical
See ,
pantie
A pair of short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).
Papillomatous
Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, papillomata.
Par
By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs;
parings
Parts that are pared or cut off.
Parliamentarian
One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.
Patricidal
Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.
Patricide
The murderer of his father.
Peal
To appeal.
Pedantically
In a pedantic manner.
Pedestrian
A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
Percuss
To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See , 3.
Perforata
A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to .
Performable
Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
Pericardian
Pericardiac.
Perpendicular
A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
Pharyngobranchial
Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchi; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See .
Phosphorized
Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.
Phthalein
One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and well represented by phenol phthaleiuml;n. Their alkaline solutions are fluorescent.
Physiognomist
Same as , 1.
Pictorial
Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture;
Piecemeal
In pieces; in parts or fragments.
Pile
A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
Pile
A mass of things heaped together; a heap;
Pileus
A kind of skull cap of felt.
Pilfer
To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
Pillow lace
Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.
Pill-willet
The willet.
Pinpatch
The common English periwinkle.
Pipsissewa
A low evergreen plant (), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also .
Piss
Urine.
Pit
A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
Plebeianize
To render plebeian, common, or vulgar.
Plunk
To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
Pluviometer
An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
Pneumonic
A medicine for affections of the lungs.
Podophyllous
Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.
Pointleted
Having a small, distinct point; apiculate.
Pollock
A marine gadoid fish (), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called , , , , , etc.
Polydactylism
The possession of more that the normal number of digits.
Polyhedrous
Polyhedral.
Portrait
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
Pose
To interrogate; to question.
Possessively
In a possessive manner.
Posting
The act of traveling post.
Postulant
One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
Potamography
An account or description of rivers; potamology.
Potentize
To render the latent power of (anything) available.
Poulard
A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.
Practisour
A practitioner.
Precipitator
One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.
Precisianism
The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.
Precisianist
A precisian.
Precogitate
To cogitate beforehand.
Premeditate
To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; .
Presswork
The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
Pretzel
A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
Price
The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost.
Princified
Imitative of a prince.
Privet
An ornamental European shrub (), much used in hedges; -- called also .
Procreation
The act of begetting; generation and production of young.
Pronominalize
To give the effect of a pronoun to;
Propagandist
A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.
Prosopulmonata
A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.
Protosulphide
That one of a series of sulphides of any element which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one atom of sulphur in the molecule.
Pruce
Prussian leather.
Prudential
That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the
Pucherite
Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.
Purse
To steal purses; to rob.
Pustulous
Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular.