6 Letter 4 Letter 7 Letter Countdown Words Starting With P

PAC (7) PAD (6) [noun] A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. | [noun] A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. | [noun] A soft, or small, cushion. | [noun] A toad. | [noun] A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad. | [noun] A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods. | [verb] To travel along (a road, path etc.). | [noun] The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc. PAH (8) [interjection] Used to express distaste, disgust or outrage. | [noun] Father, papa. | [noun] Grandpa, grandfather. PAL (5) [noun] A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. | [noun] An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PAM (7) PAN (5) [noun] A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking. | [noun] The contents of such a receptacle. | [noun] A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home. | [verb] Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally. | [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [verb] To join or fit together; to unite. | [noun] A part; a portion. | [adjective] Pansexual. PAP (7) [noun] Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. | [noun] Nonsense. | [noun] Porridge. | [noun] A female breast or nipple. | [noun] Pap smear | [adjective] (South African slang) Flat. | [noun] A paparazzo. | [noun] Pa; father PAR (5) [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject. | [noun] An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures. | [preposition] By; with. | [noun] Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. | [noun] Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. PAS (5) [noun] A pace; a step, as in a dance or in marching. | [noun] The right of going foremost; precedence. | [noun] Father, papa. PAT (5) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. | [noun] Patent. PAW (8) [noun] The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. | [noun] A hand. | [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [noun] Father; pa. PAX (12) [noun] A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory. | [noun] Friendship; truce. | [noun] The kiss of peace. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers. PAY (8) [noun] Money given in return for work; salary or wages. | [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear. PEA (5) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [noun] A peafowl | [noun] Wampum. PEC (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle. PED (6) [noun] (on traffic signs) A pedestrian. | [noun] A pedestal. | [noun] A basket; a hamper; a pannier. | [noun] A soil particle. | [noun] Motorcycle PEE (5) [noun] Urine. | [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter P. | [noun] Pence; penny (a quantity of money) | [noun] The bill of an anchor. | [noun] The sliding weight on a steelyard. PEG (6) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PEH (8) PEN (5) [noun] An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. | [noun] A prison cell. | [noun] The bullpen. | [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [noun] A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. | [noun] A female swan. | [noun] Penalty. PEP (7) [noun] Energy, high spirits. | [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PER (5) [preposition] For each. | [preposition] To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units). | [preposition] By the, by means of the, via the, through the. | [adjective] Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her. PES (5) [noun] The foot of a human | [noun] The hoof of a quadruped | [noun] Clubfoot or talipes PET (5) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. | [noun] A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted. | [noun] A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures. | [noun] A term of endearment usually applied to women and children. PEW (8) [noun] One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel. | [noun] An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family. | [noun] Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold. | [interjection] An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor. | [interjection] Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun. PHI (8) [noun] Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph". | [noun] The golden ratio. | [noun] A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion. PHT (8) PIA (5) [noun] The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord | [noun] A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot. PIC (7) [noun] A picture, especially a photographic image. | [noun] A film. | [noun] A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches. PIE (5) [noun] A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. | [noun] Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. | [noun] (Northeastern US) A pizza. | [noun] Magpie. | [noun] The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna. PIG (6) [noun] Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa. | [noun] (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine). | [noun] The edible meat of such an animal; pork. | [noun] Earthenware, or an earthenware shard PIN (5) [noun] A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening. | [noun] A small nail with a head and a sharp point. | [noun] A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PIP (7) [noun] Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. | [noun] Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression. | [noun] A pippin, seed of any kind. | [noun] One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc. | [verb] To peep, to chirp | [noun] One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call. | [noun] (currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading. PIS (5) [noun] The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek. | [noun] An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π. | [noun] Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered. PIT (5) [noun] A hole in the ground. | [noun] An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race. | [noun] A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed. | [noun] A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit. | [noun] A pit bull terrier. PIU (5) PIX (12) [noun] Plural form of pic in the sense of "picture". | [noun] Specifically, motion pictures; movies. | [noun] A small, usually round container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, especially used to bring communion to the sick, or others who are unable to attend Mass. PLY (8) [noun] A layer of material. | [noun] A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn. | [noun] Short for plywood. | [verb] To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit. | [noun] A bent; a direction. POD (6) [noun] A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. | [noun] A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations. | [noun] A bag; a pouch. POH (8) POI (5) [noun] The traditional staple food of Hawaii, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment. | [noun] A creamy Samoan dessert of ripe bananas mashed with coconut cream. | [noun] A small ball made of leaves and fibres, attached to a string; also, a traditional dance performed by Maori women involving the rhythmic swinging of such a ball. POL (5) [noun] A politician. POM (7) [noun] An Englishman, a Briton; a person of British descent. | [noun] (cocktail) An American alcoholic drink containing vodka and pomegranate juice. POP (7) [noun] A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle. | [noun] (Midwest US) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. | [noun] (Midwest US) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. | [noun] Affectionate form of father. | [noun] Pop music. | [noun] (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. POT (5) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. | [noun] Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly | [noun] Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot | [noun] Marijuana | [noun] A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc. | [noun] A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical. POW (8) [noun] A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | [noun] A formal election. | [noun] A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) POX (12) [noun] A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. | [noun] Syphilis. | [noun] A curse. PRO (5) [noun] An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons). | [noun] A person who supports a concept or principle. | [preposition] In favor of. | [noun] A professional sportsman. | [noun] A prostitute. | [noun] A proproctor. PRY (8) [noun] The act of prying. | [noun] An excessively inquisitive person. | [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [noun] A lever. PSI (5) [noun] The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A form of psychic energy. PUB (7) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. | [noun] The act of publishing printed or other matter. | [verb] To publish PUD (6) [noun] Pudding (either sweet or savoury). | [noun] Penis. | [noun] Child's hand; child's fist. | [noun] An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). PUG (6) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain | [noun] An elf or hobgoblin. | [noun] One who fights with fists; a boxer. | [noun] Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil) | [noun] The pawprint or footprint of an animal | [noun] A term of endearment. PUL (5) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani. PUN (5) [noun] A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused. | [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. | [noun] A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm. PUP (7) [noun] A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals. | [noun] A young, inexperienced person. | [noun] Any cute dog, regardless of age. PUR (5) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PUS (5) [noun] A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection. | [verb] To emit pus. PUT (5) [noun] A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | [noun] A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | [noun] The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. | [noun] An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer. | [noun] A prostitute. PYA (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat. | [noun] A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee PYE (8) PYX (15) [noun] A small, usually round container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, especially used to bring communion to the sick, or others who are unable to attend Mass. | [noun] A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. | [noun] The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

PACA (8) [noun] Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides. PACE (8) [noun] Step. | [noun] Way of stepping. | [noun] Speed or velocity in general. | [preposition] With all due respect to. | [noun] Easter. PACK (12) [noun] A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. | [noun] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack | [noun] A multitude. | [verb] (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. PACS (8) PACT (8) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PADI (7) PADS (7) [noun] A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. | [noun] A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. | [noun] A soft, or small, cushion. PAGE (7) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. | [noun] A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education. PAID (7) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. | [adjective] That is not free of charge; that costs money. PAIK (10) PAIL (6) [noun] A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover). | [noun] (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container. PAIN (6) [noun] An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | [noun] The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | [noun] (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. | [noun] Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. PAIR (6) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) | [verb] To impair, to make worse. PALE (6) [noun] Paleness; pallor. | [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. PALL (6) [noun] Senses relating to cloth. | [noun] Senses relating to clothing. | [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. | [verb] To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. | [noun] A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence. PALM (8) [noun] Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics. | [noun] A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. | [noun] (by extension) Triumph; victory. | [noun] The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers. PALP (8) [noun] A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating. | [noun] A fleshy part of a fingertip. | [noun] Short for palpation. PALS (6) [noun] A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with. | [noun] An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PALY (9) [adjective] Vertically striped | [adjective] Pale; lacking colour PAMS (8) PANE (6) [noun] An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc. | [noun] A layer in the build-up of a GUI. | [noun] A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface. PANG (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PANS (6) [noun] A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking. | [noun] The contents of such a receptacle. | [noun] A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home. PANT (6) [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [noun] Eager longing. | [noun] A violent palpitation of the heart. | [noun] A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). | [noun] (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain. PAPA (8) [noun] Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father. | [noun] A pet name for one's grandfather. | [noun] A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. PAPS (8) [noun] Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. | [noun] Nonsense. | [noun] Porridge. PARA (6) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented. | [noun] A paratrooper. | [adjective] Very drunk | [noun] Short for paraprofessional educator. PARD (7) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PARE (6) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PARK (10) [noun] An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | [noun] A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | [noun] An area used for specific purposes. PARR (6) [noun] Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. | [noun] A young leveret. PARS (6) [noun] Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper. | [noun] Equality of condition or circumstances. | [noun] (mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole. PART (6) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PASE (6) PASH (9) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [noun] A romantic infatuation; a crush. | [noun] The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush. | [noun] A crushing blow. | [verb] To throw (or be thrown) and break. PASS (6) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. | [noun] An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford. | [noun] A password (especially one for a restricted-access website). PAST (6) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PATE (6) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PATH (9) [noun] A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. | [noun] A course taken. | [noun] A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. | [noun] (abbreviation) Pathology. PATS (6) [noun] The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep | [noun] A light tap or slap, especially with the hands | [noun] A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung. PATY (9) PAVE (9) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAWL (9) [noun] A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction. | [noun] A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets. | [verb] To stop with a pawl. PAWN (9) [noun] The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. | [noun] Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. | [noun] The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge. | [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [noun] A gallery. | [verb] (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). PAWS (9) [noun] The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. | [noun] A hand. | [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. PAYS (9) [noun] Money given in return for work; salary or wages. | [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. PEAG (7) PEAK (10) [noun] A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. | [noun] The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. | [noun] The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. | [verb] To become sick or wan. | [noun] Wampum. PEAL (6) [noun] A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. | [noun] A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. | [noun] The changes rung on a set of bells. | [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. PEAN (6) [noun] A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field. | [adjective] : In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field. with gold spots | [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. PEAR (6) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEAS (6) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. PEAT (6) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PECH (11) [verb] To pant, to struggle for breath. PECK (12) [noun] An act of striking with a beak. | [noun] A small kiss. | [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). | [noun] One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts. | [verb] To throw. | [noun] Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. PECS (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle. PEDS (7) [noun] Pediatric medicine, pediatric nursing, and so on; a medical or other specialty dealing with child patients. PEED (7) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PEEK (10) [verb] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. | [verb] To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. | [verb] To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. PEEL (6) [noun] (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc. | [noun] The action of peeling away from a formation. | [noun] A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate. | [noun] A stake. | [noun] A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven. | [noun] An equal or match; a draw. | [verb] To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own). | [verb] To plunder; to pillage, rob. | [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. PEEN (6) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] Penis. PEEP (8) [noun] A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird. | [noun] A feeble utterance or complaint. | [noun] The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill. | [noun] A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one. | [noun] A spot on a die or domino. | [noun] Person. PEER (6) [noun] A look; a glance. | [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [noun] Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). | [noun] Someone who pees, someone who urinates. PEES (6) [noun] Urine. | [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PEGS (7) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PEHS (9) PEIN (6) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEKE (10) [noun] A Pekingese dog. PELE (6) PELF (9) [noun] Money; riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre). PELT (6) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PEND (7) PENS (6) [noun] An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. | [noun] A prison cell. | [noun] The bullpen. PENT (6) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [noun] Confinement; concealment. | [adjective] Confined in a pen, imprisoned. | [noun] A pentatonic scale. | [noun] A pentacle or pentagram. PEON (6) [noun] A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work. | [noun] A person of low rank or importance. | [noun] A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman. PEPO (8) [noun] A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber. | [noun] A plant producing such a fruit. PEPS (8) [noun] Energy, high spirits. | [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PERI (6) [noun] (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being. PERK (10) [noun] Perquisite. | [noun] A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. | [noun] A percolator, particularly of coffee. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. | [verb] To peer; to look inquisitively. | [verb] To perch. PERM (8) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [noun] A permutation. PERT (6) [noun] An impudent person. | [verb] To behave with pertness. | [adjective] (of a person) Attractive. PESO (6) [noun] A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar. | [noun] The currency of various countries, including but not limited to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines. PEST (6) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PETS (6) [noun] An animal kept as a companion. | [noun] (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.) | [noun] One who is excessively loyal to a superior. PEWS (9) [noun] One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel. | [noun] An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family. | [noun] Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold. PFFT (12) [interjection] Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance | [interjection] Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement | [interjection] Used to signify a puffing sound PFUI (9) [interjection] An exclamation indicating disagreement or rejection of an argument; contempt PHAT (9) [adjective] (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good. | [adjective] Sexy. | [adjective] Rich in texture; prominent. PHEW (12) [interjection] Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise. | [interjection] Used to show disgust. PHIS (9) [noun] Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph". | [noun] The golden ratio. | [noun] A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion. PHIZ (18) [noun] (chiefly Britain) The face. PHON (9) [noun] (acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured. PHOT (9) [noun] A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph). | [verb] To photograph PHUT (9) [verb] To produce such a sound. | [interjection] A sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas. PIAL (6) PIAN (6) PIAS (6) PICA (8) [noun] A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. | [noun] A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point. | [noun] (usually with qualifier) A font of this size. | [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. | [noun] A magpie. PICE (8) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. PICK (12) [noun] A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. | [noun] A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock. | [noun] A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair. PICS (8) [noun] A picture, especially a photographic image. | [noun] A film. | [noun] A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches. PIED (7) [adjective] Having two or more colors, especially black and white. | [adjective] Decorated or colored in blotches. | [verb] To spill or mix printing type. | [verb] To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing). PIER (6) [noun] A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. | [noun] A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment. | [noun] A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided. PIES (6) [verb] To spill or mix printing type. | [noun] A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. | [noun] Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling. PIGS (7) [noun] Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa. | [noun] (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine). | [noun] The edible meat of such an animal; pork. PIKA (10) [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. PIKE (10) [noun] A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults. | [noun] A sharp point, such as that of the weapon. | [noun] A large haycock. | [noun] Short for turnpike. PIKI (10) [noun] A paper-thin, dry, rolled bread made by the Hopi with nixtamalized blue corn meal. PILE (6) [noun] A mass of things heaped together; a heap. | [noun] A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. | [noun] A mass formed in layers. | [noun] A dart; an arrow. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid. | [noun] Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.) PILI (6) PILL (6) [noun] A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication. | [noun] (definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill. | [noun] A comical or entertaining person. | [noun] The peel or skin. | [noun] An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. PILY (9) PIMA (8) [noun] A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense) PIMP (10) [noun] Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. | [noun] A man who can easily attract women. | [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [numeral] Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting PINA (6) [noun] Cloth woven from pineapple fiber | [noun] A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting. | [noun] The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting. PINE (6) [noun] Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus. | [noun] Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect. | [noun] The wood of this tree. | [noun] A painful longing. | [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. PING (7) [noun] A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [noun] (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. | [noun] A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. PINK (10) [noun] The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. | [noun] A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr. | [noun] A narrow boat. | [noun] A stab. | [noun] Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations. | [verb] Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine). | [verb] To wink; to blink. | [noun] Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base. PINS (6) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening. | [noun] A small nail with a head and a sharp point. PINT (6) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to: | [noun] (metonym) A pint of milk. | [noun] (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. PINY (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having many pines PION (6) [noun] Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks. PIPE (8) [noun] Meanings relating to a wind instrument. | [noun] Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. | [noun] Meanings relating to a container. PIPS (8) [noun] Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. | [noun] Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression. | [noun] A pippin, seed of any kind. PIPY (11) PIRN (6) PISH (9) [noun] A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds. | [verb] To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh"). | [verb] To express contempt. PISO (6) PISS (6) [noun] (usually uncountable) Urine. | [noun] An instance of pissing. | [noun] Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality. PITA (6) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PITH (9) [noun] The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees. | [noun] The spongy interior substance of a feather or horn. | [noun] The spinal cord; the marrow. | [noun] One divided by pi. PITS (6) [noun] A hole in the ground. | [noun] An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race. | [noun] A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed. PITY (9) [noun] A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something. | [noun] Something regrettable. | [noun] Piety. PIXY (16) [noun] (fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. | [noun] A cute, petite woman with short hair. | [noun] An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome. PLAN (6) [noun] A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc. | [noun] A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal. | [noun] A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation. PLAT (6) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. | [noun] A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.). | [adjective] (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level. PLAY (9) [noun] Activity for amusement only, especially among the young. | [noun] Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills. | [noun] The conduct, or course, of a game. PLEA (6) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. PLEB (8) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. PLED (7) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEW (9) [noun] Beaver pelt PLIE (6) [noun] A smooth and continuous bending of the knees PLOD (7) [noun] A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. | [verb] To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). | [verb] To trudge over or through. | [noun] A puddle. | [noun] (mildly, usually with "the") the police, police officers PLOP (8) [noun] A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water. | [noun] Excrement; derived from the "plop" sound made when it hits water in a toilet. | [verb] To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid. PLOT (6) [noun] (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. | [noun] An area or land used for building on or planting on. | [noun] A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. PLOW (9) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. PLOY (9) [noun] A tactic, strategy, or gimmick. | [noun] Sport; frolic. | [noun] Employment. | [verb] To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision. PLUG (7) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. PLUM (8) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [adjective] Of a dark bluish-red colour. | [verb] To plumb. PLUS (6) [noun] A positive quantity. | [noun] An asset or useful addition. | [noun] A plus sign: +. POCK (12) [noun] A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease. | [noun] Any pit, especially one formed as a scar | [verb] To scar or mark with pits POCO (8) PODS (7) [noun] A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. | [noun] A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations. | [noun] A bag; a pouch. POEM (8) [noun] A literary piece written in verse. | [noun] A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry. | [noun] A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose. POET (6) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. POGY (10) POIS (6) [noun] A small ball made of leaves and fibres, attached to a string; also, a traditional dance performed by Maori women involving the rhythmic swinging of such a ball. POKE (10) [noun] A prod, jab, or thrust. | [noun] A lazy person; a dawdler. | [noun] A stupid or uninteresting person. | [noun] A sack or bag. | [noun] Pokeweed | [noun] Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients. POKY (13) [noun] A gambling device based on the card game poker. | [adjective] Slow. | [adjective] Stupid; mentally dull. | [noun] Jail. POLE (6) [noun] Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. | [noun] A type of basic fishing rod. | [noun] A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used. | [noun] Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object. POLL (6) [noun] A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | [noun] A formal election. | [noun] A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) | [noun] A pet parrot. | [noun] (Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. POLO (6) [noun] A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal. | [noun] The ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates. | [noun] A polo shirt. | [noun] A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands. | [noun] A dress shirt. POLS (6) [noun] A politician. POLY (9) [noun] Polytechnic. | [noun] Polyethylene (polythene). | [noun] Polyurethane | [noun] A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium polium) of the family Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean. POME (8) [noun] A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. | [noun] A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. | [verb] To grow to a head, or form a head in growing. POMP (10) [noun] Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. | [noun] A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. | [verb] To make a pompous display; to conduct. POMS (8) [noun] An Englishman, a Briton; a person of British descent. | [noun] (cocktail) An American alcoholic drink containing vodka and pomegranate juice. POND (7) [noun] An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. | [noun] An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river. | [noun] The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond. | [verb] To ponder. PONE (6) [noun] A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts. | [noun] A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities. | [noun] A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs. | [noun] The last player to bet or play in turn. PONG (7) [noun] A stench, a bad smell. | [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. | [noun] A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host. | [noun] A set of three identical tiles. PONS (6) [noun] A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ. | [noun] A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem. PONY (9) [noun] A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers. | [noun] A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer. | [noun] (New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint. | [noun] Crap; rubbish, nonsense. POOD (7) POOF (9) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [verb] To vanish or disappear. | [verb] To break wind; to fart. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. POOH (9) [noun] Feces. | [noun] A piece of feces or an act of defecation. | [noun] Cannabis resin. POOL (6) [noun] A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water. | [noun] A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. | [noun] A supply of resources. | [noun] (game) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game. POON (6) [noun] Any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, yielding a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc. | [noun] Poontang, the vagina, or, intercourse with a woman. | [noun] A wimp; a pussy. POOP (8) [noun] Fecal matter, feces. | [noun] The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch. | [verb] To make a short blast on a horn | [noun] A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process. | [verb] To tire, exhaust. Often used with out. | [noun] The stern of a ship. | [noun] A slothful person. POOR (6) [noun] (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group. | [adjective] With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | [adjective] Of low quality. POPE (8) [noun] An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state. | [noun] (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church. | [noun] An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church. | [noun] (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop. | [noun] (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. | [noun] The whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus). POPS (8) [noun] (usually as a form of address) Father, dad. | [noun] (usually as a form of address, by extension) A man old enough to be the speaker's father. | [noun] A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle. PORE (6) [noun] A tiny opening in the skin. | [noun] By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. PORK (10) [noun] The meat of a pig; swineflesh. | [noun] Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or his or her constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole. | [verb] (usually of a male) To have sex with (someone). PORN (6) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work. | [noun] Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner. PORT (6) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. | [noun] An entryway or gate. | [noun] Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making. | [noun] A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal. | [noun] A suitcase or schoolbag. POSE (6) [noun] Common cold, head cold; catarrh. | [noun] Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body). | [noun] Affectation. | [verb] To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate. POSH (9) [noun] Fragments produced by an impact | [noun] Slush | [adjective] Associated with the upper classes. POST (6) [noun] A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost. | [noun] A stud; a two-by-four. | [noun] A pole in a battery. | [noun] Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. | [noun] An assigned station; a guard post. | [preposition] After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications. | [noun] Post-production. | [noun] A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death). POSY (9) [noun] A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. | [noun] A verse of poetry, especially a motto or an inscription on a ring. POTS (6) [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. | [noun] Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly | [noun] Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot POUF (9) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. | [interjection] Onomatopoeia indicating a cloud of smoke or wind; caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance. POUR (6) [noun] The act of pouring. | [noun] Something, or an amount, poured. | [noun] A downpour, or flood of precipitation. POUT (6) [noun] One's facial expression when pouting. | [noun] A fit of sulking or sullenness. | [verb] To push out one's lips. | [noun] Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae). | [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). POWS (9) [noun] A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | [noun] A formal election. | [noun] A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) PRAM (8) [noun] A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. | [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. PRAO (6) PRAT (6) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [adjective] Cunning, astute. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. PRAU (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAY (9) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PREE (6) PREP (8) [noun] A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure. | [noun] Preparation. | [noun] A prep school. PREX (13) [noun] (college slang) A president, especially of a university. | [noun] Prefix. PREY (9) [noun] Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war | [noun] That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim. | [noun] A living thing that is eaten by another living thing. PREZ (15) [noun] President. PRIG (7) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PRIM (8) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. | [adjective] Prudish, straight-laced | [noun] (plants) privet PROA (6) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PROD (7) [noun] A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving. | [noun] A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument. | [noun] A poke. | [noun] A production. PROF (9) [noun] The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof. | [noun] A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. | [noun] One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine. PROG (7) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. | [noun] Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. PROM (8) [noun] A promenade concert | [noun] (abbreviation) promenade | [noun] A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year PROP (8) [noun] An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. | [noun] The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum. | [noun] One of the seashells in the game of props. | [noun] An item placed on a stage or set to create a scene or scenario in which actors perform. | [noun] The propeller of an aircraft. | [noun] A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot. | [noun] Propellant PROS (6) [noun] An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons). | [noun] A person who supports a concept or principle. | [noun] A professional sportsman. PROW (9) [noun] The front part of a vessel | [noun] A vessel | [adjective] Brave, valiant, gallant. | [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PSIS (6) [noun] The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek. | [noun] A form of psychic energy. PSST (6) [verb] To say psst, to get someone's attention or to communicate with them. | [interjection] Implies that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person. PUBS (8) [noun] A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. | [noun] A public server. | [verb] To go to one or more public houses. PUCE (8) [noun] A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. | [adjective] Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. PUCK (12) [noun] A mischievous or hostile spirit. | [noun] A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. | [noun] An object shaped like a puck. | [noun] (rural) billy goat PUDS (7) [noun] An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds). | [noun] A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds). | [noun] Pudding (either sweet or savoury). PUFF (12) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth. | [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. PUGH (10) PUGS (7) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain PUJA (13) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PUKE (10) [noun] Vomit. | [noun] A drug that induces vomiting. | [noun] A worthless, despicable person. | [adjective] A fine grade of woolen cloth. PULA (6) [noun] Rain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck. | [noun] The currency of Botswana, divided into 100 thebe. PULE (6) [noun] A plaintive melancholy whine. | [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. | [noun] A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk. PULI (6) [noun] One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat. PULL (6) [noun] An act of pulling (applying force) | [noun] An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | [noun] Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope PULP (8) [noun] A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. | [noun] A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. | [verb] To make or be made into pulp. PULS (6) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani. PUMA (8) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUMP (10) [noun] A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. | [noun] An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping | [noun] A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. | [noun] A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker. PUNA (6) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUNG (7) PUNK (10) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. | [noun] Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi. PUNS (6) [noun] A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm. | [noun] A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused. | [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. PUNT (6) [noun] A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. | [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [noun] A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. | [noun] A point in the game of faro. | [noun] The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002. PUNY (9) [noun] (Oxford University slang) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student. | [noun] A younger person. | [noun] A beginner, a novice. PUPA (8) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PUPS (8) [noun] A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals. | [noun] A young, inexperienced person. | [noun] Any cute dog, regardless of age. PURE (6) [noun] One who, or that which, is pure. | [verb] To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately | [verb] To cleanse; to refine. | [noun] Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins. PURI (6) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried. | [noun] In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class. PURL (6) [noun] A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | [noun] The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | [noun] An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. | [noun] A heavy or headlong fall; an upset. | [noun] A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. | [noun] Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic. | [noun] A tern. PURR (6) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PURS (6) PUSH (9) [noun] A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing. | [noun] An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents. | [noun] A great effort (to do something). | [noun] A pustule; a pimple. PUSS (6) [noun] (often as a term of address) A cat. | [noun] A girl or young woman, or any child. | [noun] A hare. | [noun] The mouth. PUTS (6) [noun] A right to sell something at a predetermined price. | [noun] A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date. | [noun] The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. PUTT (6) [noun] The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green. | [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [noun] A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines. | [verb] To place something somewhere. PUTZ (15) [noun] Fool, idiot. | [noun] Jerk. | [noun] Penis. | [noun] A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree. PYAS (9) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Burmese kyat. | [noun] A subdivision of currency in colonial Burma, equal to 1/4 of an anna or 1/64 of a rupee PYES (9) PYIC (11) PYIN (9) PYRE (9) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles.

PACAS (9) [noun] Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides. PACED (10) [verb] To walk back and forth in a small distance. | [verb] To set the speed in a race. | [verb] To measure by walking. PACER (9) [noun] One who paces. | [noun] In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. | [noun] A pacemaker. | [noun] A mechanical pencil. PACES (9) [noun] Step. | [noun] Way of stepping. | [noun] Speed or velocity in general. PACHA (12) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PACKS (13) [noun] A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. | [noun] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack | [noun] A multitude. PACTS (9) [noun] An agreement; a compact; a covenant. | [noun] An agreement between two or more nations | [verb] To form a pact; to agree formally. PADDY (12) [noun] Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. | [noun] A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. | [adjective] Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. | [noun] A fit of temper; a tantrum PADIS (8) PADLE (8) PADRE (8) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest PADRI (8) PAEAN (7) [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise. PAEON (7) [noun] A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable. PAGAN (8) [noun] A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion. | [noun] (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person. | [noun] (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child. PAGED (9) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PAGER (8) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAGES (8) [noun] One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. | [noun] One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. | [noun] Any record or writing; a collective memory. PAGOD (9) PAIKS (11) PAILS (7) [noun] A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover). | [noun] (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container. PAINS (7) [noun] An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | [noun] The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | [noun] (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. PAINT (7) [noun] A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. | [noun] (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. | [noun] The free-throw lane, construed with the. PAIRS (7) [noun] Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. | [noun] Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship. | [noun] Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts) PAISA (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. | [noun] A Mexican national, especially a rural or rustic one. PAISE (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. | [noun] A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. PALEA (7) [noun] The interior chaff or husk of grasses. | [noun] One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. | [noun] A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. PALED (8) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PALER (7) [adjective] Light in color. | [adjective] (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.). | [adjective] Feeble, faint. PALES (7) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. PALET (7) PALLS (7) [noun] Senses relating to cloth. | [noun] Senses relating to clothing. | [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. PALLY (10) [noun] An affectionate term of address. | [noun] A slightly derogatory and insulting term of address. | [adjective] Like a pal; friendly. | [noun] A paladin. PALMS (9) [noun] Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics. | [noun] A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. | [noun] (by extension) Triumph; victory. PALMY (12) [adjective] Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. | [adjective] Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees. | [adjective] Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. PALPI (9) [noun] Palp (invertebrate appendage) PALPS (9) [noun] A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predating. | [noun] A fleshy part of a fingertip. | [noun] Short for palpation. PALSY (10) [noun] Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking. | [verb] To paralyse, either completely or partially. | [adjective] Chummy, friendly. PAMPA (11) PANDA (8) [noun] The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] Short for giant panda. | [noun] (law enforcement) Short for panda car. | [noun] A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual. PANDY (11) PANED (8) PANEL (7) [noun] A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc. | [noun] A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example. | [noun] An individual frame or drawing in a comic. PANES (7) [noun] An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc. | [noun] A layer in the build-up of a GUI. | [noun] A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface. PANGA (8) [noun] A large broad-bladed knife. | [noun] Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. | [noun] A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. | [noun] A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America. PANGS (8) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PANIC (9) [noun] Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals. | [noun] Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices. | [noun] A kernel panic or system crash. | [noun] A plant of the genus Panicum. PANNE (7) [noun] A lustrous finish applied to velvet and satin. | [noun] A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close. | [noun] A wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water, often in a salt marsh or other coastal wetland. PANSY (10) [noun] A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor. | [noun] A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia. Also called arguses. PANTO (7) [noun] A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid. | [noun] By extension, a structure of crosswise bars linked in such a way that it can extend and compress like an accordion, such as in a pantograph mirror or a scissor lift. | [noun] A pattern printed on a document to reduce the ease of photocopying. PANTS (7) [noun] (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. | [noun] An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. | [noun] Rubbish; something worthless. | [verb] To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants. | [noun] A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | [verb] To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. PANTY (10) [noun] (in the plural) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys. | [noun] (usually in the plural, or in compounds) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women. | [noun] A helmet cover. PAPAL (9) [adjective] Having to do with the pope or the papacy. PAPAS (9) [noun] Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father. | [noun] A pet name for one's grandfather. | [noun] A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. PAPAW (12) [noun] A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit. | [noun] (less commonly) A father. | [noun] Grandfather. PAPER (9) [noun] A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water. | [noun] A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine). | [noun] Wallpaper. PAPPI (11) [noun] The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed. | [noun] The first hair on the chin. PAPPY (14) [adjective] Like pap; soft; mushy. | [noun] Father | [noun] Grandfather PARAS (7) [noun] A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. | [noun] A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word. | [noun] A paratrooper. PARCH (12) [noun] The condition of being parched. | [verb] To burn the surface of, to scorch. | [verb] To roast, as dry grain. PARDI (8) PARDS (8) [noun] A leopard; a panther. | [noun] Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation PARDY (11) PARED (8) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREO (7) [noun] A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong. PARER (7) PARES (7) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAREU (7) PARGE (8) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. | [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARGO (8) PARIS (7) PARKA (11) [noun] A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind. PARKS (11) [noun] An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation. | [noun] A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. | [noun] An area used for specific purposes. PARLE (7) PAROL (7) [noun] A word; an oral utterance. | [noun] Oral declaration; word of mouth. | [noun] A writing not under seal. | [noun] An ornamental star-like Christmas lantern from the Philippines. PARRS (7) PARRY (10) [noun] A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying. | [noun] A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade. | [noun] (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion. PARSE (7) [noun] An act of parsing. | [noun] The result of such an act. | [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. PARTS (7) [noun] A portion; a component. | [noun] Duty; responsibility. | [noun] The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. PARTY (10) [noun] A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | [noun] A person. | [noun] A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. | [adjective] (except in compounds) Divided; in part. PARVE (10) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PARVO (10) PASEO (7) [noun] A public path or avenue designed for walking, sometimes for dining or recreation. PASES (7) PASHA (10) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PASSE (7) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASTA (7) [noun] Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. | [noun] A dish or serving of pasta. | [noun] A type of pasta. PASTE (7) [noun] A soft moist mixture, in particular: | [noun] A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid | [noun] A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. PASTS (7) [noun] The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. | [noun] (grammar) The past tense. PASTY (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers. | [adjective] Like paste, sticky. | [adjective] Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor | [noun] A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape. PATCH (12) [noun] A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. | [noun] A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. | [noun] A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future. | [noun] A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. PATED (8) PATEN (7) [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. | [noun] Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. PATER (7) [noun] Father PATES (7) [noun] (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown. | [noun] Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities. | [noun] The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color. PATHS (10) [noun] A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. | [noun] A course taken. | [noun] A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. PATIN (7) PATIO (7) [noun] A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation. | [noun] An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain. PATLY (10) PATSY (10) [noun] A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. PATTY (10) [noun] (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. | [noun] A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. PAUSE (7) [noun] A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer. | [noun] A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. | [noun] A short time for relaxing and doing something else. PAVAN (10) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Padua. | [noun] An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century. | [noun] A stately Spanish dance. PAVED (11) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVER (10) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAVES (10) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVID (11) PAVIN (10) PAVIS (10) PAWED (11) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAWER (10) PAWKY (17) [adjective] Shrewd, sly; often also characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour. PAWLS (10) [noun] A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction. | [noun] A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets. PAWNS (10) [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [noun] The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. | [noun] Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. PAXES (14) PAYED (11) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. PAYEE (10) [noun] One to whom money is paid. PAYER (10) [noun] One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. | [noun] A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg. PAYOR (10) PEACE (9) [noun] A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance. | [noun] A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. | [noun] Harmony in personal relations. PEACH (12) [noun] A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. | [noun] The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. | [noun] A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. | [verb] To inform on someone; turn informer. | [noun] A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. PEAGE (8) PEAGS (8) PEAKS (11) [noun] A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. | [noun] The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. | [noun] The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. PEAKY (14) [adjective] Sickly; peaked. | [adjective] Characterised by peaks. PEALS (7) [noun] A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. | [noun] A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. | [noun] The changes rung on a set of bells. PEANS (7) PEARL (7) [noun] A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery. | [noun] Something precious. | [noun] A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application. PEARS (7) [noun] An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. | [noun] A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis). | [noun] The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood). PEART (7) [adjective] Lively; active. PEASE (7) [noun] A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. | [noun] The edible seed of some of these plants. | [noun] A ball travelling at high velocity. | [verb] To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile. PEATS (7) [noun] Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel. | [noun] A pet, a darling; a woman. PEATY (10) PEAVY (13) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PECAN (9) [noun] A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts. | [noun] A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree. | [noun] A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut. PECHS (12) PECKS (13) [noun] An act of striking with a beak. | [noun] A small kiss. | [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). PECKY (16) PEDAL (8) [noun] A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano | [noun] A foot or footlike part. | [noun] An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on. PEDES (8) [noun] The foot of a human | [noun] The hoof of a quadruped | [noun] Clubfoot or talipes PEDRO (8) PEEKS (11) [verb] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. | [verb] To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. | [verb] To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. PEELS (7) [noun] A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. | [noun] (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc. | [noun] The action of peeling away from a formation. PEENS (7) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] Penis. PEEPS (9) [noun] A quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird. | [noun] A feeble utterance or complaint. | [noun] The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill. | [noun] Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. PEERS (7) [noun] A look; a glance. | [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. PEERY (10) [adjective] That tends to peer; prying, inquisitive, curious. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to peers or the peerage. | [noun] Spinning top PEEVE (10) [noun] An annoyance or grievance. | [verb] To annoy; vex. PEINS (7) PEISE (7) PEKAN (11) [noun] The fisher cat, the fisher (Martes pennanti), or the marten (Martes americana). PEKES (11) [noun] A Pekingese dog. PEKIN (11) PEKOE (11) [noun] A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India, Java and the Azores. PELES (7) PELFS (10) PELON (7) PELTS (7) [noun] A blow or stroke from something thrown. | [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. PENAL (7) [adjective] Of or relating to punishment. | [adjective] Subject to punishment; punishable. | [adjective] Serving as a place of punishment. PENCE (9) [noun] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d. | [noun] In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p. | [noun] In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. PENDS (8) PENES (7) [noun] The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end. | [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] Penis. PENGO (8) [noun] The monetary unit of Hungary from January, 1927 to July, 1946, divided into 100 fillér. PENIS (7) [noun] The male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and some other mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the male genitalia (excluding the scrotum). PENNA (7) [noun] A contour feather PENNE (7) [noun] A type of short, diagonally cut pasta. PENNI (7) [noun] A former Finnish currency unit, worth 1/100 of the markka. PENNY (10) [noun] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d. | [noun] In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p. | [noun] In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. PEONS (7) [noun] A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work. | [noun] A person of low rank or importance. | [noun] A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman. PEONY (10) [noun] A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers. | [noun] A dark red colour. PEPLA (9) PEPOS (9) [noun] A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber. | [noun] A plant producing such a fruit. PEPPY (14) [adjective] Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy PERCH (12) [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. | [noun] Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: | [noun] Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper. | [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. PERDU (8) PERDY (11) PEREA (7) PERIL (7) [noun] A situation of serious and immediate danger. | [noun] Something that causes, contains, or presents danger. | [noun] An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event. PERIS (7) [noun] (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being. PERKS (11) [noun] Perquisite. | [noun] A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up. | [noun] A percolator, particularly of coffee. PERKY (14) [adjective] Lively or enthusiastic. | [adjective] Standing upright; firm. PERMS (9) [noun] A permanent. | [noun] A permanent wave. | [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. PERRY (10) [noun] A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears; somewhat analogous to cider. PERSE (7) [noun] A dark blue-gray colour. | [noun] A cloth of this colour. | [adjective] Dark greyish blue or purple. PESKY (14) [adjective] Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child). PESOS (7) [noun] A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar. | [noun] The currency of various countries, including but not limited to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines. PESTO (7) [noun] A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino) PESTS (7) [noun] A plague, pestilence, epidemic | [noun] Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. | [noun] An annoying person, a nuisance. PESTY (10) PETAL (7) [noun] One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. | [noun] Term of endearment. PETER (7) [noun] The penis. | [noun] A safe. | [verb] (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. | [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. PETIT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy. | [noun] A kind of pigeon. | [adjective] (of size) Petite: small, little. | [noun] The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point. PETTI (7) PETTO (7) PETTY (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size. | [noun] A class or school for young schoolboys. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. PEWEE (10) [noun] The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus). | [noun] A woodcock. | [noun] An American version of the children's game gilli-danda. PEWIT (10) [noun] Any of several birds PHAGE (11) [noun] A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. PHASE (10) PHIAL (10) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. PHLOX (17) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox. PHONE (10) [noun] A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. | [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. | [noun] A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. PHONO (10) [noun] A phonograph. PHONS (10) [noun] (acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured. PHONY (13) [noun] A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. | [noun] A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. | [noun] Anything fraudulent or fake. PHOTO (10) [noun] A photograph. | [noun] A photo finish. | [verb] To take a photograph of. PHOTS (10) [verb] To photograph PHPHT (15) PHUTS (10) PHYLA (13) [noun] A tribe. | [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank | [noun] A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another. PHYLE (13) PIANO (7) [noun] A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings | [adjective] Soft, quiet | [adjective] In extended use; quiet, subdued | [adverb] Softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music) PIANS (7) PIBAL (9) PICAL (9) PICAS (9) [noun] A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. | [noun] A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point. | [noun] (usually with qualifier) A font of this size. PICKS (13) [noun] A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. | [noun] A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock. | [noun] A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair. PICKY (16) [noun] A picture. | [adjective] Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right. PICOT (9) [noun] An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops. PICUL (9) PIECE (9) [noun] A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts. | [noun] A single item belonging to a class of similar items | [noun] One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games. PIERS (7) [noun] A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty. | [noun] A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment. | [noun] A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided. PIETA (7) [noun] A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus. PIETY (10) [noun] Reverence and devotion to God. | [noun] Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country. | [noun] A devout act or thought. PIGGY (12) [noun] (hypocoristic) A pig (the animal). | [noun] (hypocoristic) A guinea pig. | [noun] (hypocoristic) A toe. PIGMY (13) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. PIING (8) PIKAS (11) [noun] Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia. PIKED (12) [verb] To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike. | [verb] To assume a pike position. | [verb] To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money. PIKER (11) [noun] A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. | [noun] One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money. | [noun] A stingy person; a cheapskate. PIKES (11) [noun] A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults. | [noun] A sharp point, such as that of the weapon. | [noun] A large haycock. PIKIS (11) PILAF (10) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILAR (7) PILAU (7) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. | [adjective] Filthy PILAW (10) PILEA (7) [noun] The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape. PILED (8) [verb] (often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate | [verb] To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. | [verb] To add something to a great number. PILEI (7) [noun] The cap of a mushroom. | [noun] The bell of a jellyfish. | [noun] A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud. PILES (7) [noun] A mass of things heaped together; a heap. | [noun] A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. | [noun] A mass formed in layers. | [noun] Haemorrhoids. PILIS (7) PILLS (7) [noun] A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication. | [noun] (definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill. | [noun] A comical or entertaining person. PILOT (7) [noun] A person who steers a ship, a helmsman. | [noun] A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast. | [noun] A guide book for maritime navigation. PILUS (7) PIMAS (9) PIMPS (11) [noun] Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. | [noun] A man who can easily attract women. | [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. PINAS (7) [noun] Cloth woven from pineapple fiber | [noun] A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting. | [noun] The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting. PINCH (12) [noun] The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. | [noun] A close compression of anything with the fingers. | [noun] A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip. PINED (8) [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. | [verb] To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering. | [verb] To grieve or mourn for. PINES (7) [noun] Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus. | [noun] Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect. | [noun] The wood of this tree. PINEY (10) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having many pines PINGO (8) [noun] A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A flexible pole supported on one shoulder, with a load suspended from each end; a carrying pole or carrying yoke. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A measure of weight equivalent to that which can be carried using a pingo, perhaps about 55 pounds (25 kilograms) (see the 2013 quotation). PINGS (8) [noun] A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [noun] (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. | [noun] A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. PINKO (11) [noun] A socialist who is not wholly communist. PINKS (11) [noun] The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus. | [noun] A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr. | [noun] A narrow boat. PINKY (14) [noun] Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals. | [noun] A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc. | [noun] A white person. | [noun] The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot. | [adjective] Winking PINNA (7) [noun] The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal. | [noun] A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf. | [noun] A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage. PINNY (10) [noun] A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes. | [noun] A simple jersey worn to denote teams or groups. PINON (7) [noun] Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine. | [noun] A pine nut. PINOT (7) [noun] Any of several grape varieties grown in Europe and North America. | [noun] (by extension) Any of several wines made from these grapes. PINTA (7) [noun] A pint of milk. | [noun] A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis. | [noun] (Chicano) prison PINTO (7) [noun] A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white. | [adjective] Pied, mottled. PINTS (7) [noun] A unit of volume, equivalent to: | [noun] (metonym) A pint of milk. | [noun] (metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. PINUP (9) [noun] A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. | [noun] The person so depicted. | [noun] Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc. PIONS (7) [noun] Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks. PIOUS (7) [adjective] Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing. PIPAL (9) [noun] The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa. PIPED (10) [verb] To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. | [verb] To shout loudly and at high pitch. | [verb] To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. PIPER (9) [noun] A musician who plays a pipe. | [noun] A bagpiper. | [noun] A baby pigeon. | [noun] A plant of the family Piperaceae. PIPES (9) [noun] Meanings relating to a wind instrument. | [noun] Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. | [noun] Meanings relating to a container. PIPET (9) [noun] A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. | [verb] To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette. PIPIT (9) [noun] Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country. PIQUE (16) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. | [noun] In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. | [noun] A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans. | [noun] A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk. PIRNS (7) PIROG (8) [noun] A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. PISCO (9) [noun] A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. PISOS (7) PISTE (7) [noun] A downhill trail. | [noun] The field of play of a fencing match. | [noun] The track left by somebody riding a horse. PITAS (7) [noun] A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. | [noun] A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. | [noun] The plant which yields the fiber. PITCH (12) [noun] A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. | [noun] A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. | [noun] Pitchstone. | [noun] A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. | [noun] The perceived frequency of a sound or note. PITHS (10) [verb] To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). | [verb] To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. PITHY (13) [adjective] Concise and meaningful. | [adjective] Of, like, or abounding in pith. PITON (7) [noun] A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber). | [verb] To put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing. PIVOT (10) [noun] A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. | [noun] (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. | [noun] Act of turning on one foot. PIXEL (14) [noun] One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory. | [noun] One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer. | [verb] To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels. PIXES (14) PIXIE (14) [noun] (fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. | [noun] A cute, petite woman with short hair. | [noun] An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome. PIZZA (25) [noun] A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit | [noun] A single instance of this dish PLACE (9) [noun] (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | [noun] A location or position in space. | [noun] A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. | [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. PLACK (13) PLAGE (8) [noun] A region; country | [noun] A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun PLAID (8) [noun] A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern. | [noun] A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands. | [noun] The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. | [verb] To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. PLAIN (7) [adjective] Flat, level. | [adjective] Simple. | [adjective] Obvious. | [noun] A lamentation. | [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. PLAIT (7) [noun] A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. | [noun] A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. | [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat PLANE (7) [noun] A level or flat surface. | [noun] A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). | [noun] A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane) | [noun] A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface. | [noun] An airplane; an aeroplane. | [noun] A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus. PLANK (11) [noun] A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick. | [noun] A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue. | [noun] Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time. PLANS (7) [noun] A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc. | [noun] A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal. | [noun] A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation. PLANT (7) [noun] An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. | [noun] An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. | [noun] Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. PLASH (10) [noun] A small pool of standing water; a puddle. | [noun] A splash, or the sound made by a splash. | [noun] A sudden downpour. | [noun] The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches. PLASM (9) [noun] A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. | [noun] Protoplasm PLATE (7) [noun] A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. | [noun] Such dishes collectively. | [noun] The contents of such a dish. | [noun] Precious metal, especially silver. PLATS (7) [noun] A plot of land; a lot. | [noun] A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document. | [noun] A plot, a scheme. PLATY (10) [adjective] Resembling plates. | [adjective] Of a field semy of plates. | [adjective] Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral. | [noun] Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails). PLAYA (10) [noun] A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely. | [noun] A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male). | [noun] A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships). PLAYS (10) [noun] Activity for amusement only, especially among the young. | [noun] Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills. | [noun] The conduct, or course, of a game. PLAZA (16) [noun] A town's public square. | [noun] An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches. | [noun] A strip mall. PLEAD (8) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEAS (7) [noun] An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty. | [noun] An excuse; an apology. | [noun] That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification. PLEAT (7) [noun] A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance. | [noun] A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness. | [noun] A plait. PLEBE (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens. | [noun] The plebs, the plebeian class. | [noun] The similar lower class of any area. PLEBS (9) [noun] A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. | [noun] A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy. PLENA (7) PLEWS (10) [noun] Beaver pelt PLICA (9) [noun] A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue. | [noun] Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together. | [noun] A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. PLIED (8) [verb] To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit. | [verb] To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.). | [verb] To work at (something) diligently. PLIER (7) PLIES (7) [noun] A layer of material. | [noun] A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn. | [noun] Short for plywood. | [noun] A smooth and continuous bending of the knees PLINK (11) [noun] A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound. | [verb] To make a plink sound. | [verb] (with "out") To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano. PLODS (8) [verb] To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). | [verb] To trudge over or through. | [verb] To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. PLONK (11) [noun] The sound of something solid landing. | [verb] To set or toss (something) down carelessly. | [verb] To automatically ignore a particular poster. | [noun] Cheap or inferior everyday wine. | [noun] A female police constable. PLOPS (9) [noun] A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water. | [noun] Excrement; derived from the "plop" sound made when it hits water in a toilet. | [verb] To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid. PLOTS (7) [noun] (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. | [noun] An area or land used for building on or planting on. | [noun] A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device. PLOTZ (16) [verb] To flop down wearily. | [verb] To faint. | [verb] To fall down dead. PLOWS (10) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. PLOYS (10) [noun] A tactic, strategy, or gimmick. | [noun] Sport; frolic. | [noun] Employment. PLUCK (13) [noun] An instance of plucking. | [noun] The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. | [noun] Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. PLUGS (8) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. PLUMB (11) [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. | [noun] A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water. | [noun] The perpendicular direction or position. | [noun] The fruit and its tree. PLUME (9) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. | [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. PLUMP (11) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. | [noun] The sound of a sudden heavy fall. | [noun] A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd. PLUMS (9) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [verb] To plumb. PLUMY (12) [adjective] Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. PLUNK (11) [noun] The dull thud of something landing on a surface. | [noun] A large sum of money. | [noun] A dollar. PLUSH (10) [noun] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. | [noun] A plush toy. | [adjective] Very extravagant. PLYER (10) POACH (12) [noun] The act of cooking in simmering liquid. | [verb] To cook something in simmering liquid. | [verb] To be cooked in simmering liquid | [noun] The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return. POCKS (13) [noun] A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease. | [noun] Any pit, especially one formed as a scar POCKY (16) [adjective] Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic. PODGY (12) [adjective] Slightly fat. PODIA (8) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. POEMS (9) [noun] A literary piece written in verse. | [noun] A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry. | [noun] A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose. POESY (10) [noun] A poem. | [noun] The class of literature comprising poems; poetry, verse. POETS (7) [noun] A person who writes poems. | [noun] A person with a creative or romantic imagination. POGEY (11) [noun] A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc. | [noun] (often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance. POILU (7) [noun] A French infantryman during the First World War POIND (8) [noun] A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized | [verb] To seize property in this manner POINT (7) [noun] A discrete division of something. | [noun] A sharp extremity. | [noun] One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. | [verb] To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it. | [verb] To appoint. POISE (7) [noun] A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. | [noun] Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation. | [noun] Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body. POKED (12) [verb] To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. | [verb] To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning. | [verb] To rummage; to feel or grope around. POKER (11) [noun] A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. | [noun] A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings. | [noun] One who pokes. | [noun] Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game. | [noun] Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. POKES (11) [noun] A prod, jab, or thrust. | [noun] A lazy person; a dawdler. | [noun] A stupid or uninteresting person. POKEY (14) [noun] (with "the") prison. | [adjective] (of a room, house) of small volume, cramped | [adjective] Slow POLAR (7) [noun] The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line. | [adjective] Of or having a pole or polarity. | [adjective] Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles. POLED (8) [verb] To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. | [verb] To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. | [verb] To furnish with poles for support. POLER (7) [noun] One who propels a boat using a pole. | [noun] A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle. | [noun] An extortioner. POLES (7) [noun] Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. | [noun] A type of basic fishing rod. | [noun] A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used. POLIO (7) [noun] A sufferer from poliomyelitis. | [noun] Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity. POLIS (7) [noun] A Greek city-state. | [noun] The police. | [noun] A police officer. POLKA (11) [noun] A lively dance originating in Bohemia. | [noun] The music for this dance. | [noun] A polka jacket. POLLS (7) [noun] A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | [noun] A formal election. | [noun] A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) POLOS (7) POLYP (12) [noun] An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane | [noun] A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles POLYS (10) [noun] Polytechnic. | [noun] Polyethylene (polythene). | [noun] Polyurethane POMES (9) [noun] A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. | [noun] A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. POMMY (14) [noun] A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman. | [adjective] English; British. POMPS (11) [noun] Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. | [noun] A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. PONCE (9) [noun] A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's. | [verb] To act as a pimp. | [verb] Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. PONDS (8) [noun] An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. | [noun] An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river. | [noun] The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond. PONES (7) PONGS (8) [noun] A stench, a bad smell. | [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. POOCH (12) [noun] A dog. | [noun] A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel. | [noun] A bulge, an enlarged part POODS (8) POOFS (10) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. POOFY (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to something that is puffy, filled with air, inflated. | [adjective] Capable of making a poofing sound. | [adjective] Pertaining to, or describing homosexual behaviour or culture POOHS (10) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To dirty something with feces. | [verb] To say "pooh". POOLS (7) [noun] A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water. | [noun] A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. | [noun] A supply of resources. POONS (7) [noun] Any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, yielding a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc. | [noun] Poontang, the vagina, or, intercourse with a woman. | [noun] A wimp; a pussy. POOPS (9) [noun] Fecal matter, feces. | [noun] The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch. | [verb] To make a short blast on a horn POORI (7) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from Indian and Pakistan. POOVE (10) [noun] Less common variant of poof (male homosexual). POPES (9) [noun] (Russian Orthodoxy) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. | [noun] An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state. | [noun] (Coptic Church) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church. POPPA (11) [noun] (sometimes childish) father, papa. POPPY (14) [noun] Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant. | [noun] A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower. | [noun] A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Sunday. | [adjective] Having a popping or bursting sound. | [adjective] Popular. | [noun] One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing. POPSY (12) [noun] Grandfather. | [noun] Father. | [noun] A girl. PORCH (12) [noun] A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. | [noun] A portico; a covered walk. | [noun] The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft. PORED (8) [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. | [verb] To meditate or reflect in a steady way. | [adjective] Having or furnished with pores PORES (7) [noun] A tiny opening in the skin. | [noun] By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid. | [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. PORGY (11) [noun] Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream. PORKS (11) [verb] (usually of a male) To have sex with (someone). PORKY (14) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of pork. | [adjective] Rather fat; chubby. | [noun] A lie. PORNO (7) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] A pornographic film. | [adjective] Pornographic PORNS (7) PORNY (10) [adjective] Reminiscent of pornography; somewhat pornographic. PORTS (7) [noun] A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. | [noun] A town or city containing such a place, a port city. | [noun] The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board. POSED (8) [verb] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. | [verb] To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.). | [verb] To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.). POSER (7) [noun] A particularly difficult question or puzzle. | [noun] Someone who asks a question or sets a problem. | [noun] Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. POSES (7) [noun] Common cold, head cold; catarrh. | [noun] Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body). | [noun] Affectation. POSIT (7) [noun] Something that is posited; a postulate. | [verb] Assume the existence of; to postulate. | [verb] Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. POSSE (7) [noun] A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. | [noun] A group of people summoned to help law enforcement. | [noun] A search party. POSTS (7) [noun] A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost. | [noun] A stud; a two-by-four. | [noun] A pole in a battery. POTSY (10) POTTO (7) [noun] A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. | [noun] The kinkajou. POTTY (10) [verb] To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate. | [verb] To go crazy: to become insane. | [noun] (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children. | [adjective] Insane. POUCH (12) [noun] A small bag usually closed with a drawstring. | [noun] A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young. | [noun] Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch. POUFF (13) POUFS (10) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. POULT (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). POUND (8) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere. | [noun] The symbol # (octothorpe, hash) | [noun] A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter. | [noun] A hard blow. POURS (7) [noun] The act of pouring. | [noun] Something, or an amount, poured. | [noun] A downpour, or flood of precipitation. POUTS (7) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). | [noun] One's facial expression when pouting. | [noun] A fit of sulking or sullenness. POUTY (10) [adjective] Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. POWER (10) [noun] Ability to do or undergo something. | [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | [noun] (physical) Effectiveness. POXED (15) POXES (14) [noun] A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. | [noun] Syphilis. | [noun] A curse. POYOU (10) PRAAM (9) [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. | [noun] A type of dinghy with a flat bow. PRAHU (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAMS (9) [noun] A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator. | [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. PRANG (8) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. | [noun] A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia. PRANK (11) [noun] A practical joke or mischievous trick. | [noun] An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception. | [verb] To perform a practical joke on; to trick. PRAOS (7) PRASE (7) [noun] A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green colour. PRATE (7) [noun] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. | [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRATS (7) [noun] A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. | [noun] A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. | [noun] A fool. PRAUS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAWN (10) [noun] A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata. | [noun] A crustacean sometimes confused with shrimp. | [noun] A woman with a very toned body, but an unattractive face. | [noun] Pornography. PRAYS (10) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PREED (8) PREEN (7) [noun] A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth. | [noun] (dialectal) pin | [noun] (dialectal) bodkin; brooch | [verb] (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers. PREES (7) PREPS (9) [noun] A preventative medical regiment of HIV medicines used to protect against HIV seroconversion after an exposure. | [noun] Preparation. | [noun] A prep school. PRESA (7) PRESE (7) PRESS (7) [noun] A device used to apply pressure to an item. | [noun] A printing machine. | [noun] (collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). | [verb] To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon. PREST (7) PREXY (17) [noun] A president, especially of a college or university. PREYS (10) [verb] To act as a predator. PRICE (9) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRICK (13) [noun] A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing. | [noun] An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object. | [noun] A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point. | [verb] To pierce or puncture slightly. PRICY (12) [adjective] Expensive, dear. PRIDE (8) [noun] The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others. | [noun] (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. | [noun] Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris. PRIED (8) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PRIER (7) PRIES (7) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PRIGS (8) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PRILL (7) [noun] A rill, a small stream | [noun] A spinning top | [verb] To flow, spurt | [noun] A pellet, a granule, a small bead | [noun] The brill, a kind of flatfish. | [verb] To grow sour. PRIMA (9) PRIME (9) [noun] The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. | [noun] The religious service appointed to this hour. | [noun] The early morning generally. | [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [noun] An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points. PRIMI (9) PRIMO (9) [noun] The principal part of a duet. | [adjective] Best; first-class. PRIMP (11) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. PRIMS (9) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. PRINK (11) [verb] To give a wink; to wink. | [noun] The act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up | [verb] To look, gaze. PRINT (7) [noun] Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. | [noun] Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. | [noun] The letters forming the text of a document. PRION (7) [noun] A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue. | [noun] A petrel of the genus Pachyptila. PRIOR (7) [noun] A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot. | [noun] A chief magistrate in Italy. | [noun] (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record. PRISE (7) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRISM (9) [noun] A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides. | [noun] A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light. | [noun] A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis. PRISS (7) PRIVY (13) [noun] An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse). | [noun] A lavatory: a room with a toilet. | [noun] A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation. PRIZE (16) [noun] That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power. | [noun] Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel. | [noun] An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort. | [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [adjective] Having won a prize; award-winning. | [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. PROAS (7) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PROBE (9) [noun] Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. | [noun] Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. | [noun] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. PRODS (8) [verb] To poke, to push, to touch. | [verb] To encourage, to prompt. | [verb] To prick with a goad. PROEM (9) [noun] An introduction, preface or preamble. PROFS (10) [noun] The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof. | [noun] A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. | [noun] One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine. PROGS (8) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. PROLE (7) [noun] A member of the proletariat; a proletarian | [noun] A pleb (ordinary person). PROMO (9) [noun] An interview or monologue intended to promote a character or an upcoming match. | [verb] To promote; to publicize. | [noun] An advancement in rank or position. PROMS (9) [noun] A promenade concert | [noun] (abbreviation) promenade | [noun] A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year PRONE (7) [adjective] Lying face downward. | [adjective] Having a downward inclination or slope. | [adjective] Predisposed, liable, inclined. PRONG (8) [noun] A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine. | [noun] A branch; a fork. | [noun] The penis. PROOF (10) [noun] An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. | [noun] The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. | [noun] The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. PROPS (9) [noun] An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. | [noun] The player on either side of the hooker in a scrum. | [noun] One of the seashells in the game of props. | [noun] Respect for, or recognition of, another person; an expression of approval or a special acknowledgment; accolades; praise. PROSE (7) [noun] Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. | [noun] Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse. | [noun] A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. PROSO (7) PROSS (7) PROST (7) PROSY (10) [adjective] Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative. | [adjective] Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious. PROUD (8) [adjective] Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. | [adjective] Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. | [adjective] Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. PROVE (10) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [verb] To proofread. PROWL (10) [noun] The act of prowling. | [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. PROWS (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. | [noun] The front part of a vessel | [noun] A vessel PROXY (17) [noun] An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person. | [noun] The authority to act for another, especially when written. | [noun] The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. | [noun] A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance. PRUDE (8) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. | [adjective] Prudish. PRUNE (7) [noun] A plum. | [noun] The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. | [noun] An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. PRUTA (7) PRYER (10) PSALM (9) [noun] A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. | [noun] One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship. | [verb] To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing PSEUD (8) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] Pseudomonas bacteria. | [noun] A pseudonym. PSHAW (13) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. | [interjection] Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief. PSOAE (7) PSOAI (7) PSOAS (7) [noun] Either of two muscles, the psoas major and psoas minor, involved in flexion of the trunk. PSYCH (15) [noun] Psychology or psychiatry. | [noun] A psychologist; a psychiatrist. | [verb] To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up). PUBES (9) [noun] The pubic hair. | [noun] The pubic region. | [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis | [noun] A single pubic hair. PUBIC (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes. PUBIS (9) [noun] The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis PUCES (9) PUCKA (13) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PUCKS (13) [noun] A mischievous or hostile spirit. | [noun] A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. | [noun] An object shaped like a puck. PUDGY (12) [adjective] Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby. PUDIC (10) PUFFS (13) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. PUFFY (16) [adjective] Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like. | [adjective] Coming or exhaling in puffs. | [adjective] Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner. PUGGY (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a pug dog. | [adjective] Sticky, claylike PUJAH (17) PUJAS (14) [noun] A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship. PUKED (12) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. PUKES (11) [noun] Vomit. | [noun] A drug that induces vomiting. | [noun] A worthless, despicable person. PUKKA (15) [adjective] (originally South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper. | [adjective] Superior or of high quality; first-class. | [adjective] Excellent, fantastic, great. PULED (8) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULER (7) PULES (7) [noun] A plaintive melancholy whine. | [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULIK (11) [noun] One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat. PULIS (7) PULLS (7) [noun] An act of pulling (applying force) | [noun] An attractive force which causes motion towards the source | [noun] Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope PULPS (9) [noun] A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. | [noun] A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. | [verb] To make or be made into pulp. PULPY (12) [adjective] Having the characteristics of pulp | [adjective] Having the characteristics of pulp fiction; thus, having a garish focus on sex and violence PULSE (7) [noun] A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. | [noun] A beat or throb. | [noun] The beat or tactus of a piece of music. | [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [noun] Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals, especially in the mature, dry condition. PUMAS (9) [noun] The mountain lion or cougar, Puma concolor. | [noun] A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar. PUMPS (11) [noun] A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. | [noun] An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping | [noun] A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. PUNAS (7) [noun] An alpine biological community in the central portion of the Andes in which short, coarse grass supports a Native American population. PUNCH (12) [noun] A hit or strike with one's fist. | [noun] Power, strength, energy. | [noun] Impact. | [noun] A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface. | [noun] A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic. | [noun] Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia. PUNGS (8) PUNKA (11) PUNKS (11) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. PUNKY (14) [noun] A small two-winged fly or midge of the family Ceratopogonidae, which bites and then sucks the blood of mammals; the biting midge; sandfly. | [noun] A fish, Lepomis gibbosus. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood) - soft or rotted. PUNNY (10) [noun] A punishment. | [adjective] (of a pun) Funny. | [adjective] Involving the use of a pun. PUNTO (7) PUNTS (7) [noun] A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. | [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [noun] A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. PUNTY (10) [noun] A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed called the "pontil mark". PUPAE (9) [noun] An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. PUPAL (9) PUPAS (9) PUPIL (9) [noun] A learner under the supervision of a teacher or professor. | [noun] An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state. | [noun] The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina. PUPPY (14) [noun] A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12-18 months) | [noun] A young rat. | [noun] A young seal. PURDA (8) PUREE (7) [noun] A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid. | [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. | [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan. PURER (7) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURGE (8) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PURIN (7) PURIS (7) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried. | [noun] In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class. PURLS (7) [noun] A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. | [noun] The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | [noun] An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. PURRS (7) [noun] The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. | [noun] A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. | [noun] The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed PURSE (7) [noun] A small bag for carrying money. | [noun] A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) | [noun] A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. PURSY (10) [adjective] Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness. | [adjective] Fat and short. | [adjective] Puckered. PUSES (7) PUSHY (13) [adjective] Aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined. PUSSY (10) [noun] A cat. | [noun] An affectionate term for a woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness. | [noun] The female genitalia; the vulva and/or vagina. | [adjective] Containing pus. | [adjective] Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness. PUTON (7) PUTTI (7) [noun] A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. PUTTO (7) [noun] A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub. PUTTS (7) [verb] To place something somewhere. | [verb] To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. | [verb] To exercise a put option. PUTTY (10) [noun] A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass. | [noun] Any of a range of similar substances. | [noun] A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha. | [adjective] (pronunciation spelling) pretty; purdy | [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. PYGMY (16) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. PYINS (10) PYLON (10) [noun] A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple. | [noun] A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables. | [noun] A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage. PYOID (11) PYRAN (10) PYRES (10) [noun] A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned. | [noun] Any heap or pile of combustibles. PYRIC (12) PYXES (17) [noun] A small, usually round container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, especially used to bring communion to the sick, or others who are unable to attend Mass. | [noun] A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. | [noun] The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. PYXIE (17) PYXIS (17) [noun] A small box | [noun] A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds; a pyxidium | [noun] A nautical compass

PABLUM (12) [noun] Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing. | [noun] Nourishment. PACERS (10) [noun] One who paces. | [noun] In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. | [noun] A pacemaker. PACHAS (13) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PACIFY (16) [verb] To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation. | [verb] To appease (someone). PACING (11) [verb] To walk back and forth in a small distance. | [verb] To set the speed in a race. | [verb] To measure by walking. PACKED (15) [verb] (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. | [verb] (social) To cheat. | [verb] To load with a pack PACKER (14) [noun] A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation | [noun] A software program that compresses code or data. | [noun] A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. PACKET (14) [noun] A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel | [noun] Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia). | [noun] A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. PACKLY (17) PADAUK (13) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PADDED (11) [verb] To stuff. | [verb] To furnish with a pad or padding. | [verb] To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. PADDER (10) PADDLE (10) [noun] A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat. | [noun] A double-bladed oar used for kayaking. | [noun] Time spent on paddling. | [verb] To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside. PADLES (9) PADNAG (10) PADOUK (13) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PADRES (9) [noun] A military clergyman | [noun] A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest PAEANS (8) [noun] A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle. | [noun] (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. | [noun] (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise. PAELLA (8) [noun] A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked on a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish. PAEONS (8) [noun] A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable. PAESAN (8) PAGANS (9) [noun] A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion. | [noun] (by extension) An uncivilized or unsocialized person. | [noun] (by extension) An unruly, badly educated child. PAGERS (9) [noun] A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages. | [noun] A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time. | [noun] (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages. PAGING (10) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PAGODA (10) [noun] A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. | [noun] (usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. | [noun] A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. PAGODS (10) PAIKED (13) PAINCH (13) PAINED (9) [verb] To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | [verb] To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | [verb] To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. PAINTS (8) [noun] A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. | [noun] (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. | [noun] The free-throw lane, construed with the. PAINTY (11) PAIRED (9) [verb] To group into one or more sets of two. | [verb] To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating. | [verb] To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. PAISAN (8) [noun] (Alternate spelling of paesano, from Neapolitan language "paisano," often shortened to "paisan" or "paesan") among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent, a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian. | [noun] A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry. | [noun] Roadrunner. PAISAS (8) PAJAMA (17) [noun] A pair of pajamas. | [noun] Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. | [noun] Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India. PAKEHA (15) [noun] A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander. PALACE (10) [noun] Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system. | [noun] A large and lavishly ornate residence. | [noun] A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions. PALAIS (8) PALATE (8) [noun] The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus. | [noun] The sense of taste. | [noun] Relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste) PALEAE (8) [noun] The interior chaff or husk of grasses. | [noun] One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. | [noun] A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. PALEAL (8) PALELY (11) PALEST (8) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PALETS (8) PALIER (8) PALING (9) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PALISH (11) PALLED (9) [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. | [verb] To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. | [verb] To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PALLET (8) [noun] A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage. | [noun] A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment. | [noun] (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft. | [noun] A straw bed. | [noun] Paleness; pallor. | [noun] A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours. PALLIA (8) [noun] A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. | [noun] A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. | [noun] The mantle of a mollusc. PALLID (9) [adjective] Appearing weak, pale or wan. PALLOR (8) [noun] Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness. PALMAR (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage | [adjective] In the direction of the palm | [adjective] Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds. PALMED (11) [verb] To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. | [verb] To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. | [verb] To move something with the palm of the hand. PALMER (10) [noun] A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary. | [noun] Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body. | [noun] A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees. | [noun] A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms. | [noun] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. PALPAL (10) PALPUS (10) [noun] Palp (invertebrate appendage) PALTER (8) [verb] To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions. | [verb] To trifle. | [verb] To haggle. PALTRY (11) [adjective] Trashy, trivial, of little value. | [adjective] Of little monetary worth. PAMPAS (12) [noun] The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon. PAMPER (12) [verb] To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence. | [verb] To feed luxuriously. PANADA (9) [noun] A thick paste made by mixing breadcrumbs, flour, etc. with water, milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks | [noun] Any of several soups made using this paste PANAMA (10) PANDAS (9) [noun] The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail. | [noun] Short for giant panda. | [noun] (law enforcement) Short for panda car. PANDER (9) [noun] A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer. | [noun] An offer of illicit sex with a third party. | [noun] An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt. PANDIT (9) [noun] (Nepal) An honorary title for a learned man or scholar. PANELS (8) [noun] A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc. | [noun] A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example. | [noun] An individual frame or drawing in a comic. PANFRY (14) PANFUL (11) PANGAS (9) [noun] A large broad-bladed knife. | [noun] Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. | [noun] A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. PANGED (10) PANGEN (9) PANICS (10) [noun] Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals. | [noun] Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices. | [noun] A kernel panic or system crash. PANIER (8) PANNED (9) [verb] To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold). | [verb] To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely. | [verb] With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful. PANNES (8) PANTED (9) [verb] To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. | [verb] To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | [verb] To long for (something); to be eager for (something). PANTIE (8) PANTOS (8) [noun] A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid. | [noun] By extension, a structure of crosswise bars linked in such a way that it can extend and compress like an accordion, such as in a pantograph mirror or a scissor lift. | [noun] A pattern printed on a document to reduce the ease of photocopying. PANTRY (11) [noun] A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage and/or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller. PANZER (17) [noun] A tank, especially a German one of World War II. | [noun] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to the armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II. PAPACY (15) [noun] The office of the pope. | [noun] The period of a particular pope's reign. | [noun] Roman Catholicism generally. PAPAIN (10) [noun] A proteolytic enzyme in papaya fruit which can be used to tenderize meat. PAPAWS (13) [noun] A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit. | [noun] (less commonly) A father. | [noun] Grandfather. PAPAYA (13) [noun] A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit | [noun] The fruit of this tree. | [noun] An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh. PAPERS (10) [noun] A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water. | [noun] A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine). | [noun] Wallpaper. PAPERY (13) [adjective] Being like paper in terms of consistency, thickness, texture, dryness, etc. PAPIST (10) [noun] A Roman Catholic, whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome. | [adjective] The quality of being a papist. PAPPUS (12) [noun] The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed. | [noun] The first hair on the chin. PAPULA (10) [noun] A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. | [noun] One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. PAPULE (10) [noun] A small, inflammatory, irritated spot on the skin, similar in appearance to a pimple, but not containing pus. PAPYRI (13) [noun] (usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley. | [noun] (usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant. | [noun] A scroll or document written on papyrus. PARADE (9) [noun] An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators. | [noun] A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something. | [noun] Any succession, series, or display of items. PARAMO (10) [noun] A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America. PARANG (9) [noun] A short, heavy, straight-edged knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a tool and weapon. | [noun] A style of music originating from Trinidad and Tobago, strongly influenced by Venezuelan music. PARAPH (13) [noun] A flourish made after or below one's signature, originally to prevent forgery. | [noun] A mark used by medieval rubricators to indicate textual division. | [verb] To add a paraph to; to sign, especially with one's initials. PARCEL (10) [noun] A package wrapped for shipment. | [noun] An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form. | [noun] A division of land bought and sold as a unit. PARDAH (12) PARDEE (9) PARDIE (9) PARDON (9) [noun] Forgiveness for an offence. | [noun] An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed. | [verb] To forgive (a person). PARENT (8) [noun] One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. | [noun] A surrogate mother | [noun] A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material PAREOS (8) [noun] A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong. PARERS (8) PAREUS (8) PAREVE (11) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PARGED (10) [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. PARGES (9) [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls. PARGET (9) [noun] Gypsum. | [noun] Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. | [noun] Paint, especially for the face. PARGOS (9) PARIAH (11) [noun] A person who is rejected from society or home; an outcast. | [noun] A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised. | [noun] Someone in exile. PARIAN (8) PARIES (8) PARING (9) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PARISH (11) [noun] In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. | [noun] The community attending that church; the members of the parish. | [noun] An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live. | [verb] To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing. PARITY (11) [noun] Equality; comparability of strength or intensity. | [noun] Senses related to classification into two sets. | [noun] (games) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board. | [noun] The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks PARKAS (12) [noun] A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind. PARKED (13) [verb] To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. | [verb] To defer (a matter) until a later date. | [verb] To bring together in a park, or compact body. PARKER (12) PARLAY (11) [noun] (originally United States) A bet or series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward; an accumulator. | [verb] To carry forward the stake and winnings from a bet on to a subsequent wager or series of wagers. | [verb] (by extension) To increase (an asset, money, etc.) by gambling or investing in a daring manner. PARLED (9) PARLES (8) PARLEY (11) [noun] A conference, especially one between enemies. | [verb] To have a discussion, especially one between enemies. PARLOR (8) [noun] The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room | [noun] The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside. | [noun] A comfortable room in a public house. PARODY (12) [noun] A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony. | [noun] A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. | [verb] To make a parody of something. PAROLE (8) [noun] The release of a former prisoner under condition of compliance with specific terms. | [noun] The amount of time a former prisoner spends on limited release. | [noun] A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released. PAROLS (8) PAROUS (8) [adjective] Having given birth. PARRAL (8) PARRED (9) [verb] To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. PARREL (8) PARROT (8) [noun] A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae. | [noun] A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others. | [noun] A puffin. PARSEC (10) [noun] Parallax second PARSED (9) [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. | [verb] To examine closely; to scrutinize. | [verb] To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. PARSER (8) [noun] A computer program that parses. | [noun] One who parses. PARSES (8) [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. | [verb] To examine closely; to scrutinize. | [verb] To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. PARSON (8) [noun] An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector. | [noun] A Protestant minister. PARTAN (8) PARTED (9) [verb] To leave the company of. | [verb] To cut hair with a parting; shed. | [verb] To divide in two. PARTLY (11) [adverb] In part, or to some degree, but not completely. PARTON (8) PARURA (8) PARURE (8) [noun] A set of jewellery to be worn together. PARVIS (11) [noun] An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral. | [noun] A portico surrounding such a space. | [noun] The porch of a church, or the room over it. PARVOS (11) PASCAL (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of pressure and stress; one newton per square metre. Symbol: Pa. PASEOS (8) [noun] A public path or avenue designed for walking, sometimes for dining or recreation. PASHAS (11) [noun] A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae. PASHED (12) [verb] To snog, to make out, to kiss. | [verb] To throw (or be thrown) and break. | [verb] To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces. PASHES (11) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [noun] A romantic infatuation; a crush. | [noun] The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush. PASSED (9) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASSEE (8) PASSEL (8) [noun] An indeterminately large quantity or group. PASSER (8) [noun] One who succeeds in passing a test, etc. | [noun] Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass. | [noun] A passed pawn. PASSES (8) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASSIM (10) [adverb] Throughout or frequently | [adverb] Here and there PASSUS (8) [noun] A section of a long narrative poem; a canto PASTAS (8) [noun] Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. | [noun] A dish or serving of pasta. | [noun] A type of pasta. PASTED (9) [verb] To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. | [verb] To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. | [verb] To strike or beat someone or something. PASTEL (8) [noun] Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender | [noun] A drawing made with any of those colors. | [noun] A type of dried paste used to make crayons. | [noun] A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone. PASTER (8) PASTES (8) [noun] A soft moist mixture, in particular: | [noun] A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid | [noun] A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. PASTIE (8) [noun] An item worn (often by strippers) to conceal one's nipples. | [noun] A type of seasoned meat pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. | [noun] A circular, battered and deep-fried meat pie usually consisting of minced pork, onion, potato and seasoning and served in a bap or with chips. A peculiarity of Northern Irish "chippy" cuisine, rarely (if ever) seen outside the area. PASTIL (8) PASTIS (8) [noun] A liqueur containing aniseed. PASTOR (8) [noun] A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals. | [noun] Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people | [noun] A minister or priest in a church. PASTRY (11) [noun] A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc. | [noun] The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries. | [noun] The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries. PATACA (10) [noun] The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos. | [noun] A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in Malta in the form of a large copper coin. | [noun] A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958. PATCHY (16) [adjective] Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches. | [adjective] Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven. PATENS (8) [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. | [noun] Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. PATENT (8) [noun] A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent. | [noun] A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent. | [noun] License; formal permission. | [adjective] Open, unobstructed, expanded. PATERS (8) [noun] Father PATHOS (11) [noun] The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality. | [noun] A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity. | [noun] An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character. PATINA (8) [noun] A paten, flat type of dish | [noun] The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals. | [noun] A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina. PATINE (8) PATINS (8) PATIOS (8) [noun] A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation. | [noun] An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain. PATOIS (8) [noun] A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard. | [noun] Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France. | [noun] Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti). PATROL (8) [noun] A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts. | [noun] A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts. | [noun] The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol. | [verb] To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat. PATRON (8) [noun] One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. | [noun] An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble. | [noun] A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant. PATTED (9) [verb] To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. | [verb] To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat | [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). PATTEE (8) PATTEN (8) [noun] Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs. | [noun] One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground. | [noun] A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing. | [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. PATTER (8) [noun] A soft repeated sound, as of rain falling, or feet walking on a hard surface. | [verb] To make irregularly repeated sounds of low-to-moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch. | [verb] To spatter; to sprinkle. | [noun] Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer or a sports commentator. | [noun] One who pats. PATTIE (8) [noun] (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. | [noun] A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. PATZER (17) [noun] A bad player; an amateur. PAULIN (8) PAUNCH (13) [noun] The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen. | [noun] The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one. | [noun] A paunch mat. PAUPER (10) [noun] One who is extremely poor. | [noun] One living on or eligible for public charity. PAUSAL (8) PAUSED (9) [verb] To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. | [verb] To interrupt an activity and wait. | [verb] To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. PAUSER (8) PAUSES (8) [noun] A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer. | [noun] A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. | [noun] A short time for relaxing and doing something else. PAVANE (11) [noun] A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter. PAVANS (11) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Padua. | [noun] An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century. | [noun] A stately Spanish dance. PAVEED (12) PAVERS (11) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAVING (12) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVINS (11) PAVIOR (11) [noun] A person who lays paving slabs. | [noun] A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. | [noun] A brick or slab used for paving. PAVISE (11) PAWERS (11) PAWING (12) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAWNED (12) [verb] To pledge; to stake or wager. | [verb] To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. | [verb] (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). PAWNEE (11) [noun] One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn. PAWNER (11) PAWNOR (11) PAWPAW (16) [noun] Any of several types of trees having edible fruit: | [noun] The fruit of these trees. | [noun] Grandfather. PAXWAX (25) PAYDAY (15) [noun] The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid. PAYEES (11) [noun] One to whom money is paid. PAYERS (11) [noun] One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. | [noun] A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg. PAYING (12) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. PAYNIM (13) [noun] A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew. PAYOFF (17) [noun] A payment. | [noun] A reward. | [noun] A bribe. PAYOLA (11) [noun] A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record). PAYORS (11) PAYOUT (11) [noun] An amount of money paid out. | [noun] The value of dividends paid to shareholders. PAZAZZ (35) [noun] Flair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor. PEACED (11) [verb] To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace. | [verb] To peace out. PEACES (10) [noun] A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony; absence of violence. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance. | [noun] A state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions. | [noun] Harmony in personal relations. PEACHY (16) [adjective] Resembling a peach, peach-like. | [adjective] Very good, excellent. PEAGES (9) PEAHEN (11) [noun] A female peafowl. PEAKED (13) [adjective] Having a peak or peaks. | [adjective] Sickly-looking, peaky. | [verb] To reach a highest degree or maximum. PEALED (9) [verb] To sound with a peal or peals. | [verb] To utter or sound loudly. | [verb] To assail with noise. PEANUT (8) [noun] A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea. | [noun] A very small clam. | [verb] To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten. PEARLS (8) [noun] A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery. | [noun] Something precious. | [noun] A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application. PEARLY (11) [noun] A pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue. | [noun] (especially in plural) A tooth. | [adjective] Of a pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue. PEASEN (8) PEASES (8) PEAVEY (14) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PEBBLE (12) [noun] A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water. | [noun] A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. | [noun] A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface. PEBBLY (15) PECANS (10) [noun] A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts. | [noun] A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree. | [noun] A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut. PECHAN (13) PECHED (14) [verb] To pant, to struggle for breath. | [adjective] Tired, out of breath, worn out. PECKED (15) [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). | [verb] To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. | [verb] To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. PECKER (14) [noun] Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly: | [noun] (by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose. | [noun] (by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage. PECTEN (10) [noun] The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. | [noun] The pubic bone. | [noun] A comb structure. PECTIC (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to pectin or pectin-like substances | [adjective] Relating to pectic acid or its derivatives PECTIN (10) [noun] A polysaccharide extracted from the cell walls of plants, especially of fruits; under acidic conditions it forms a gel. It is often used in processed foods, especially jellies and jams where it causes thickening (setting). PEDALO (9) [noun] A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation. PEDALS (9) [noun] A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano | [noun] A foot or footlike part. | [noun] An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on. PEDANT (9) [noun] A teacher or schoolmaster. | [noun] A person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar. | [noun] A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. PEDATE (9) PEDDLE (10) [verb] To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. | [verb] To sell illegal narcotics. | [verb] To spread or cause to spread. PEDLAR (9) [noun] An itinerant seller of small goods. | [noun] A drug dealer. PEDLER (9) PEDROS (9) PEEING (9) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PEEKED (13) [verb] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. | [verb] To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. | [verb] To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. PEELED (9) [verb] To remove the skin or outer covering of. | [verb] To remove something from the outer or top layer of. | [verb] To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way. PEELER (8) [noun] A police officer. | [noun] One who peels. | [noun] A device for peeling fruit or vegetables. PEENED (9) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEEPED (11) [verb] To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird. | [verb] To speak briefly with a quiet voice. | [verb] To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. PEEPER (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The eye. | [noun] Someone who peeps; a spy. | [noun] A private detective. PEEPUL (10) [noun] The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa. PEERED (9) [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [verb] To make equal in rank. PEERIE (8) [noun] A Shetland sheepdog. | [adjective] Small, tiny. | [noun] Spinning top PEEVED (12) [verb] To annoy; vex. PEEVES (11) [noun] An annoyance or grievance. | [verb] To annoy; vex. PEEWEE (11) [noun] A short or small person; a small object. | [noun] A kind of small marble in children's games. | [noun] A player in a sports league for very young children. | [noun] (New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark, Grallina cyanoleuca. PEEWIT (11) [noun] Any of several birds PEGBOX (18) [noun] The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs. PEGGED (11) [verb] To fasten using a peg. | [verb] To affix or pin. | [verb] To fix a value or price. PEINED (9) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEISED (9) PEISES (8) PEKANS (12) [noun] The fisher cat, the fisher (Martes pennanti), or the marten (Martes americana). PEKINS (12) PEKOES (12) PELAGE (9) [noun] Fur, or any other form of the coat of a mammal PELITE (8) [noun] A sedimentary rock containing very fine particles. PELLET (8) [noun] A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter. | [noun] A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns. | [noun] Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones. PELMET (10) [noun] An interior decorative item that is placed above a window to hide the curtain mechanisms, visually similar to a cornice or valance. PELOTA (8) [noun] Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall. PELTED (9) [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. | [verb] To rain or hail heavily. PELTER (8) PELTRY (11) [noun] Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs. PELVES (11) [noun] The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx. | [noun] A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter PELVIC (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis PELVIS (11) [noun] The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx. | [noun] A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter PENANG (9) PENCEL (10) PENCIL (10) [noun] A paintbrush. | [noun] A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. | [noun] An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. PENDED (10) PENGOS (9) [noun] The monetary unit of Hungary from January, 1927 to July, 1946, divided into 100 fillér. PENIAL (8) PENILE (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the penis. PENMAN (10) [noun] A scribe, or person who copies texts | [noun] A journalist or other author PENMEN (10) [noun] A scribe, or person who copies texts | [noun] A journalist or other author PENNAE (8) PENNED (9) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [verb] To write (an article, a book, etc.). | [adjective] Winged; having plumes PENNER (8) PENNIA (8) PENNIS (8) PENNON (8) [noun] A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear. | [noun] A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel. | [noun] A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing. PENSEE (8) PENSIL (8) PENTAD (9) [noun] A group or series of five things. | [noun] A mean average value of temperature, etc., taken every five days. | [noun] Any element, atom, or radical having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad. PENTYL (11) [noun] Any of several isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C5H11, formally derived from pentane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. PENULT (8) [noun] The next-to-last syllable of a word. | [noun] The next to the last in a series. PENURY (11) [noun] Extreme want; poverty; destitution. | [noun] A lack of something; a dearth. PEONES (8) PEOPLE (10) [noun] Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. | [noun] Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc. | [noun] A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. PEPLOS (10) [noun] An Ancient Greek garment, worn by women, formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. PEPLUM (12) [noun] A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics. | [noun] An individual film in this genre. | [noun] A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla. PEPLUS (10) PEPPED (13) [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PEPPER (12) [noun] A plant of the family Piperaceae. | [noun] A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. | [noun] A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties. PEPSIN (10) [noun] A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids. PEPTIC (12) [noun] An agent that promotes digestion. | [noun] (in the plural) The digestive organs. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, capable of, or aiding digestion. PEPTID (11) PERDIE (9) PERDUE (9) PERDUS (9) PEREIA (8) PEREON (8) PERILS (8) [noun] A situation of serious and immediate danger. | [noun] Something that causes, contains, or presents danger. | [noun] An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event. PERIOD (9) [noun] A length of time. | [noun] A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. | [noun] The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). PERISH (11) [verb] To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing. | [verb] To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose | [verb] To die; to cease to live. PERKED (13) [verb] To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker. | [verb] Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. PERMED (11) [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. | [adjective] That has been given a permanent wave PERMIT (10) [noun] An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. | [noun] Formal permission. | [verb] To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. | [noun] A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus. PEROXY (18) PERRON (8) [noun] A stone block used as the base of a monument, marker, etc. | [noun] A platform outside the raised entrance to a church or large building, or the steps leading to such a platform. PERSES (8) PERSON (8) [noun] An individual; usually a human being. | [noun] The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. | [noun] Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. PERTER (8) PERTLY (11) PERUKE (12) [noun] A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries. PERUSE (8) [noun] An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing. | [verb] To examine or consider with care. | [verb] To read completely. PESADE (9) PESETA (8) [noun] The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos. PESEWA (11) [noun] In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi. PESTER (8) [noun] A bother or nuisance. | [verb] To bother, harass, or annoy persistently. | [verb] To crowd together thickly. PESTLE (8) [noun] A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things. | [noun] A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. | [noun] The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig. PESTOS (8) PETALS (8) [noun] One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. | [noun] Term of endearment. PETARD (9) [noun] A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall. | [noun] Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense. | [noun] A loud firecracker. PETERS (8) [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. | [noun] The penis. | [noun] A safe. PETITE (8) [adjective] (especially of a woman) fairly short and of slim build. | [adjective] (clothing) of small size. | [adjective] Small, little; insignificant; petty. PETNAP (10) PETREL (8) [noun] Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes. PETROL (8) [noun] Petroleum, a fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel. | [noun] A motor vehicle powered by petrol (as opposed to diesel). PETSAI (8) PETTED (9) [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). | [verb] To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously. | [verb] Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously. PETTER (8) PETTLE (8) PEWEES (11) [noun] The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus). | [noun] A woodcock. | [noun] An American version of the children's game gilli-danda. PEWITS (11) [noun] Any of several birds PEWTER (11) [noun] An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin, 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony. | [noun] An alloy of tin and lead. | [noun] Items made of pewter; pewterware. PEYOTE (11) [noun] A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for its psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline. | [noun] A mescal button produced by the plant. PEYOTL (11) PHAGES (12) [noun] A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. PHALLI (11) [noun] A penis, especially when erect. | [noun] A representation of an erect penis symbolising fertility or potency. | [noun] A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male ratites. PHAROS (11) PHASED (12) [adjective] Organized or structured chronologically in phases PHASES (11) [noun] Phase; stage | [noun] Aspect PHASIC (13) [adjective] Of or relating to phase | [adjective] Describing the discontinuous activity of excitable cells or tissues PHASIS (11) PHATIC (13) [adjective] Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship, e.g., polite mood, rather than meaning; for example, "How are you?" is often not a literal question but is said only as a greeting. (Similarly, a response such as "Fine" is often not an accurate answer, but merely an acknowledgement of the greeting.) PHENIX (18) PHENOL (11) [noun] A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C6H5OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic; once called carbolic acid. | [noun] Any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring. PHENOM (13) [noun] Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf. | [noun] One who is hip and fashionable. PHENYL (14) [noun] A univalent hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) formally derived from benzene by the removal of a hydrogen atom, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives. PHIALS (11) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. PHIZES (20) [noun] (chiefly Britain) The face. PHLEGM (14) [noun] One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus. | [noun] Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. | [noun] A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution. PHLOEM (13) [noun] A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot PHOBIA (13) [noun] An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something). PHOBIC (15) [noun] A person who has a phobia. | [adjective] Relating to a phobia. | [adjective] Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike). PHOEBE (13) [noun] Any of several birds of the genus Sayornis. PHONAL (11) PHONED (12) [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. PHONES (11) [noun] A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. | [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. | [noun] A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. PHONEY (14) [noun] A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. | [noun] A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. | [noun] Anything fraudulent or fake. PHONIC (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic. PHONON (11) [noun] The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave. | [noun] A unit of phonemics. PHONOS (11) [noun] A phonograph. PHOOEY (14) [noun] Hooey; nonsense | [interjection] An expression of disgust, rejection, or disappointment. PHOTIC (13) [adjective] Of, related to, or irradiated by light; especially describing that part of the near-surface ocean is which photosynthesis is possible. PHOTOG (12) [noun] A photographer, especially a professional one. PHOTON (11) [noun] The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson. PHOTOS (11) [noun] A photograph. | [noun] A photo finish. | [verb] To take a photograph of. PHRASE (11) [noun] A short written or spoken expression. | [noun] (grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. | [noun] A small section of music in a larger piece. PHYLAE (14) PHYLAR (14) PHYLIC (16) PHYLLO (14) [noun] A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked. PHYLON (14) PHYLUM (16) [noun] A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank | [noun] A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another. PHYSED (15) PHYSES (14) PHYSIC (16) [noun] A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative. | [noun] The art or profession of healing disease; medicine. | [noun] Natural philosophy; physics. PHYSIS (14) PHYTOL (14) PHYTON (14) PIAFFE (14) [noun] A calm, composed, elevated trot in place. | [verb] To strut pretentiously, to parade about. | [verb] To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly. PIANIC (10) PIANOS (8) [noun] A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings PIAZZA (26) [noun] A public square, especially in Italian cities. | [noun] A veranda; a porch. | [noun] A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building). PIAZZE (26) PIBALS (10) PICARA (10) PICARO (10) [noun] Rogue, adventurer PICKAX (21) [noun] A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge. | [verb] To use a pickaxe. PICKED (15) [verb] To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. | [verb] To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. | [verb] To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. PICKER (14) [noun] Agent noun of pick; one who picks. | [noun] Any user interface control that selects something. | [noun] A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre. PICKET (14) [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. | [noun] A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. PICKLE (14) [noun] A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. | [noun] (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. | [noun] The brine used for preserving food. | [noun] A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.) PICKUP (16) [noun] An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player. | [noun] A pickup truck. | [noun] (usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players. PICNIC (12) [noun] An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink. | [noun] The meal eaten at such a gathering. | [noun] An easy or pleasant task. PICOTS (10) [noun] An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops. PICRIC (12) PICULS (10) PIDDLE (10) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. PIDDLY (13) [adjective] Small, inconsequential, or not worth spending time on. PIDGIN (10) [noun] An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. | [noun] A person's business, occupation, work, or trade. PIECED (11) [verb] (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative). | [verb] To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out. | [verb] To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag. PIECER (10) [noun] One who pieces; a patcher. | [noun] A child employed in a spinning mill to tie together broken threads. PIECES (10) [noun] A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts. | [noun] A single item belonging to a class of similar items | [noun] One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games. PIEING (9) PIERCE (10) [verb] To puncture; to break through | [verb] To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry | [verb] To break or interrupt abruptly | [noun] A pierced earring PIETAS (8) PIFFLE (14) [noun] Nonsense, foolish talk. | [verb] To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner. | [verb] To waste, to fritter away. PIGEON (9) [noun] One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species. | [noun] The meat from this bird. | [noun] A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game. PIGGED (11) [verb] (of swine) to give birth. | [verb] To greedily consume (especially food). | [verb] To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. PIGGIE (10) PIGGIN (10) PIGLET (9) [noun] A young pig PIGNUS (9) PIGNUT (9) [noun] The edible tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe. | [noun] Any of various types of hickory or their fruits; a hognut. | [noun] Simmondsia chinensis, jojoba. PIGOUT (9) PIGPEN (11) [noun] A pigsty; an enclosure where pigs are kept. | [noun] Something extremely dirty or messy. | [noun] The pigpen cipher PIGSTY (12) [noun] An enclosure where pigs are kept. | [noun] A dirty or very untidy place. PIKAKE (16) PIKERS (12) [noun] A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. | [noun] One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money. | [noun] A stingy person; a cheapskate. PIKING (13) [verb] To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike. | [verb] To assume a pike position. | [verb] To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money. PILAFF (14) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILAFS (11) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILAUS (8) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILAWS (11) PILEUM (10) PILEUP (10) [noun] A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially | [noun] An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome. PILEUS (8) [noun] The cap of a mushroom. | [noun] The bell of a jellyfish. | [noun] A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud. PILFER (11) [verb] To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft. PILING (9) [verb] (often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate | [verb] To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. | [verb] To add something to a great number. PILLAR (8) [noun] A large post, often used as supporting architecture. | [noun] Something resembling such a structure. | [noun] An essential part of something that provides support. PILLED (9) [verb] Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber. | [verb] To form into the shape of a pill. | [verb] To medicate with pills. PILLOW (11) [noun] A soft cushion used to support the head in bed. | [noun] A pillow lava. | [noun] A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. PILOSE (8) [adjective] Covered with fine hair. PILOTS (8) [noun] A person who steers a ship, a helmsman. | [noun] A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast. | [noun] A guide book for maritime navigation. PILOUS (8) [adjective] Covered with fine hair; pilose. PILULE (8) [noun] A little pill. PIMPED (13) [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [verb] To prostitute someone. | [verb] To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out). PIMPLE (12) [noun] An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus. | [noun] An annoying person. | [noun] Scotch (whisky) PIMPLY (15) PINANG (9) PINATA (8) [noun] (Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out. | [verb] To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy. PINCER (10) [noun] Any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To surround with a pincer attack. PINDER (9) PINEAL (8) [noun] The pineal gland. | [adjective] In the shape of a pine cone. | [adjective] Pertaining to the pineal gland. PINENE (8) [noun] Either of two isomeric bicyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons that are the principal components of pine resin PINERY (11) PINETA (8) [noun] An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers PINGED (10) [verb] To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [verb] (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. | [verb] To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. PINGER (9) [noun] A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems. | [noun] A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking. | [noun] A computer program that sends a ping message over a network. PINGOS (9) [noun] A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A flexible pole supported on one shoulder, with a load suspended from each end; a carrying pole or carrying yoke. | [noun] (Sri Lanka) A measure of weight equivalent to that which can be carried using a pingo, perhaps about 55 pounds (25 kilograms) (see the 2013 quotation). PINIER (8) PINING (9) [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. | [verb] To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering. | [verb] To grieve or mourn for. PINION (8) [noun] A wing. | [noun] The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body. | [noun] Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing. | [noun] The smallest gear in a gear train. PINITE (8) PINKED (13) [verb] To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe. | [verb] To prick with a sword. | [verb] To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule. PINKEN (12) PINKER (12) [adjective] Having a colour between red and white; pale red. | [adjective] Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet. | [adjective] Having conjunctivitis. PINKEY (15) PINKIE (12) [noun] A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb. | [noun] (less commonly) A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe. | [noun] Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals. | [noun] (South Australia) A bilby. PINKLY (15) PINKOS (12) [noun] A socialist who is not wholly communist. PINNAE (8) [noun] The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal. | [noun] A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf. | [noun] A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage. PINNAL (8) PINNAS (8) PINNED (9) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [verb] (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin. PINNER (8) PINOLE (8) [noun] A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks. PINONS (8) [noun] Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine. | [noun] A pine nut. PINOTS (8) PINTAS (8) [noun] A pint of milk. PINTLE (8) [noun] (now dialectal) The penis, or tarse. | [noun] A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder. | [noun] (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves. PINTOS (8) [noun] A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white. PINUPS (10) [noun] A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. | [noun] The person so depicted. | [noun] Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc. PINYIN (11) [noun] A phonetic script or romanization system for a language spoken in the People's Republic of China. | [proper noun] A system of romanization for Standard Mandarin, used in the People’s Republic of China, and more recently in other Chinese-speaking areas as well. | [proper noun] A Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. PINYON (11) [noun] Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine. | [noun] A pine nut. PIOLET (8) [noun] An ice axe/ice ax. PIONIC (10) PIPAGE (11) PIPALS (10) [noun] The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa. PIPERS (10) [noun] A musician who plays a pipe. | [noun] A bagpiper. | [noun] A baby pigeon. PIPETS (10) [noun] A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. PIPIER (10) PIPING (11) [verb] To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. | [verb] To shout loudly and at high pitch. | [verb] To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. PIPITS (10) [noun] Any of various small passerine birds, mainly from the genus Anthus, that are often drab, ground feeding insectivores of open country. PIPKIN (14) [noun] A small earthen pot. PIPPED (13) [verb] To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin | [verb] To hit with a gunshot | [verb] To peep, to chirp PIPPIN (12) [noun] A seed | [noun] Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red | [noun] Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties PIQUED (18) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PIQUES (17) [noun] A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride. | [noun] A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration. | [noun] Keenly felt desire; a longing. PIQUET (17) [noun] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. PIRACY (13) [noun] Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it. | [noun] A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft. | [noun] The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law. PIRANA (8) PIRATE (8) [noun] A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. | [noun] An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. | [noun] One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission PIRAYA (11) PIROGI (9) [noun] A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling. | [noun] A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. PISCOS (10) [noun] A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. PISHED (12) PISHES (11) PISSED (9) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To discharge as or with the urine. | [adjective] Drunk. PISSER (8) [noun] A clam which squirts water, such as a geoduck (Panopea generosa) or a long-neck clam (Mya arenaria). | [noun] One who pisses. | [noun] That which pisses, particularly a penis. PISSES (8) [noun] (usually uncountable) Urine. | [noun] An instance of pissing. | [noun] Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality. PISTES (8) [noun] A downhill trail. | [noun] The field of play of a fencing match. | [noun] The track left by somebody riding a horse. PISTIL (8) [noun] A discrete organ in the center of a flower capable of receiving pollen and producing a fruit, it is divided into an ovary, style and stigma. PISTOL (8) [noun] A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine. | [noun] The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator. | [noun] A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises. PISTON (8) [noun] A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump) | [noun] A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch | [verb] To move up and down like a piston. PITCHY (16) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch. | [adjective] Very dark black; pitch-black. | [adjective] Off pitch; out of tune. PITHED (12) [verb] To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). | [verb] To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. PITIED (9) [verb] To feel pity for (someone or something). | [verb] To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. PITIER (8) PITIES (8) [noun] A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something. | [noun] Something regrettable. | [noun] Piety. PITMAN (10) [noun] (plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc. | [noun] (plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill. PITMEN (10) [noun] (plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc. | [noun] (plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill. PITONS (8) [noun] A spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber). PITSAW (11) [noun] A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit. PITTED (9) [verb] To make pits in; to mark with little hollows. | [verb] To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting. | [verb] To bring (something) into opposition with something else. PIVOTS (11) [noun] A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. | [noun] (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. | [noun] Act of turning on one foot. PIXELS (15) [noun] One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory. | [noun] One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer. PIXIES (15) [noun] (fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. | [noun] A cute, petite woman with short hair. | [noun] An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome. PIZAZZ (35) [noun] Flair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor. PIZZAS (26) [noun] A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit | [noun] A single instance of this dish PIZZLE (26) [noun] The penis of an animal. | [noun] A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals. PLACED (11) [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | [verb] To earn a given spot in a competition. | [verb] To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. PLACER (10) [noun] One who places or arranges something. | [noun] One who deals in stolen goods; a fence. | [noun] (sheep) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality. | [noun] A place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold, etc. PLACES (10) [noun] (physical) An area; somewhere within an area. | [noun] A location or position in space. | [noun] A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. PLACET (10) [noun] A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc. | [noun] The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. | [interjection] Expression of assent to a vote in the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc. PLACID (11) [adjective] Calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil PLACKS (14) PLAGAL (9) [adjective] Designating a mode lying a perfect fourth below the authentic form. | [adjective] Designating a cadence in which the subdominant chord precedes the tonic. PLAGES (9) [noun] A region; country | [noun] A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun PLAGUE (9) [noun] (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. | [noun] An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. | [noun] A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. PLAGUY (12) [adjective] Causing annoyance or bother; irritating. PLAICE (10) [noun] Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae: PLAIDS (9) [noun] A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern. | [noun] A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands. | [noun] The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. PLAINS (8) [noun] A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. | [noun] A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. | [noun] A place where competitive matches are carried out. PLAINT (8) [noun] A lament or woeful cry. | [noun] A complaint. | [noun] A sad song. PLAITS (8) [noun] A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. | [noun] A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. | [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat PLANAR (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a plane. | [adjective] Flat, two-dimensional. | [adjective] (of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting. PLANCH (13) PLANED (9) [verb] To smooth (wood) with a plane. | [verb] To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water. | [verb] To glide or soar. PLANER (8) [adjective] Of a surface: flat or level. | [noun] A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed. | [noun] A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines. PLANES (8) [noun] A level or flat surface. | [noun] A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). | [noun] A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane) PLANET (8) [noun] Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. | [noun] A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.) | [noun] A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion. PLANKS (12) [noun] A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick. | [noun] A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue. | [noun] Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time. PLANTS (8) [noun] An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree. | [noun] An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. | [noun] Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. PLAQUE (17) [noun] Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch. | [noun] A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event. | [noun] A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip. PLASHY (14) PLASMA (10) [noun] A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons | [noun] A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin | [noun] Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions PLASMS (10) PLATAN (8) [noun] A planetree. PLATED (9) [verb] To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal. | [verb] To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving. | [verb] To score a run. PLATEN (8) [noun] The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. | [noun] The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression. | [noun] The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool. PLATER (8) PLATES (8) [noun] A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten. | [noun] Such dishes collectively. | [noun] The contents of such a dish. PLATYS (11) PLAYAS (11) [noun] A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely. | [noun] A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male). | [noun] A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships). PLAYED (12) [verb] To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. | [verb] To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game). | [verb] To take part in amorous activity; to make love. PLAYER (11) [noun] One that plays | [noun] One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. | [noun] A significant participant. PLAZAS (17) [noun] A town's public square. | [noun] An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches. | [noun] A strip mall. PLEACH (13) [noun] An act or result of interweaving; specifically, a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc. | [noun] A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher. | [noun] A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out. PLEADS (9) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEASE (8) [verb] To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. | [verb] To desire; to will; to be pleased by. | [adverb] Used to make a polite request. | [adverb] (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information. PLEATS (8) [noun] A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance. | [noun] A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness. | [noun] A plait. PLEBES (10) [noun] (usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens. | [noun] The plebs, the plebeian class. | [noun] The similar lower class of any area. PLEDGE (10) [noun] A solemn promise to do something. | [noun] A security to guarantee payment of a debt. | [noun] A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved. PLEIAD (9) [noun] A group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members. PLENCH (13) PLENTY (11) [noun] A more-than-adequate amount. | [adjective] Plentiful | [adverb] More than sufficiently. PLENUM (10) [noun] A space that is completely filled with matter. | [noun] A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something). | [noun] A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present. PLEURA (8) [noun] The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. | [noun] A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum. PLEXAL (15) PLEXOR (15) [noun] A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes. PLEXUS (15) [noun] A network or interwoven mass, especially of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels. | [noun] The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. PLIANT (8) [adjective] Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking | [adjective] Easily influenced; tractable. PLICAE (10) [noun] A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue. | [noun] Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together. | [noun] A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. PLICAL (10) PLIERS (8) [noun] A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things. | [noun] One who plies. PLIGHT (12) [noun] A dire or unfortunate situation. | [noun] A (neutral) condition or state. | [noun] Good health. | [noun] Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril. | [verb] To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait. | [noun] A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. PLINKS (12) [noun] A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound. | [verb] To make a plink sound. | [verb] (with "out") To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano. PLINTH (11) [noun] A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based. | [noun] The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall. | [noun] A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet. PLISKY (15) PLISSE (8) [noun] A fabric treated so as to be permanently puckered or crinkled. | [adjective] Of a fabric, treated to give a permanent puckered or crinkled effect. PLOIDY (12) [noun] The number of homologous sets of chromosomes in a cell. PLONKS (12) [noun] The sound of something solid landing. | [verb] To set or toss (something) down carelessly. | [verb] To automatically ignore a particular poster. PLOTTY (11) [adjective] (of a book, film, story) Having a complicated plot. PLOUGH (12) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. PLOVER (11) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae. PLOWED (12) [verb] To use a plough on to prepare for planting. | [verb] To use a plough. | [verb] To have sex with, penetrate. PLOWER (11) PLOYED (12) PLUCKS (14) [verb] To pull something sharply; to pull something out | [verb] To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. | [verb] To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. PLUCKY (17) [adjective] Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances. PLUMBS (12) [noun] The fruit and its tree. | [noun] Extended senses. | [noun] A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction. PLUMED (11) [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. | [verb] Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something). | [verb] (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate. PLUMES (10) [noun] A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration. | [noun] A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle. | [noun] A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward. PLUMMY (15) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of plums | [adjective] Desirable; profitable; advantageous | [adjective] (of a voice) rich, mellow and carefully articulated, especially with an upper-class accent PLUMPS (12) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. PLUNGE (9) [noun] The act of plunging or submerging | [noun] A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) | [noun] A swimming pool PLUNKS (12) [verb] To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound. | [verb] To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down. | [verb] To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch. PLURAL (8) [noun] (grammar) The plural number. | [noun] (grammar) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. | [adjective] Consisting of or containing more than one of something. PLUSES (8) [noun] A positive quantity. | [noun] An asset or useful addition. | [noun] A plus sign: +. PLUSHY (14) [adjective] Like plush; soft and shaggy. | [adjective] Plush; sumptuous. PLUTEI (8) [noun] A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church | [noun] The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms. PLUTON (8) [noun] A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma PLYERS (11) PLYING (12) [verb] To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit. | [verb] To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.). | [verb] To work at (something) diligently. PNEUMA (10) [noun] A neume. | [noun] The spirit or soul. | [noun] One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul. POACHY (16) POCKED (15) POCKET (14) [noun] A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. | [noun] Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources. | [noun] An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table. PODDED (11) [verb] To bear or produce pods | [verb] To remove peas from their case. | [verb] To put into a pod or to enter a pod. PODITE (9) PODIUM (11) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. PODSOL (9) [noun] The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests. PODZOL (18) [noun] The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests. POETIC (10) [adjective] Relating to poetry. | [adjective] Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc. | [adjective] Connecting to the soul of the beholder. POETRY (11) [noun] Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm. | [noun] A poet's literary production. | [noun] An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality. POGEYS (12) POGIES (9) POGROM (11) [noun] A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews. | [noun] An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators. | [verb] To persecute or massacre a particular group of people. POILUS (8) [noun] A French infantryman during the First World War POINDS (9) [noun] A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized POINTE (8) [noun] The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe. POINTS (8) [noun] A discrete division of something. | [noun] A sharp extremity. | [noun] One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. POINTY (11) [noun] Any pointed object. | [adjective] Pointed in shape; having a point or points. | [adjective] In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed arrow symbol ->). POISED (9) [verb] To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. | [verb] To counterpoise; to counterbalance. | [verb] To be of a given weight; to weigh. POISER (8) POISES (8) [noun] A state of balance, equilibrium or stability. | [noun] Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation. | [noun] Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body. POISHA (11) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in various Asian countries. | [noun] (British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1/64 of a rupee or three pies. | [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka. POISON (8) [noun] A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism. | [noun] Something that harms a person or thing. | [noun] A drink; liquor. POKERS (12) [noun] A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. | [noun] A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings. | [noun] One who pokes. POKEYS (15) POKIER (12) [adjective] Slow. | [adjective] Stupid; mentally dull. | [adjective] (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped, and often shabby. POKIES (12) [noun] A poker machine. Mostly used in the plural (pokies). Poker machine is the standard term used in the singular. | [noun] Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria. | [noun] A gambling device based on the card game poker. POKILY (15) POKING (13) [verb] To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. | [verb] To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning. | [verb] To rummage; to feel or grope around. POLARS (8) [noun] The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line. POLDER (9) [noun] An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes. | [verb] To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes. POLEAX (15) [noun] An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle. | [noun] A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike. | [verb] To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe. POLEIS (8) [noun] A Greek city-state. POLERS (8) [noun] One who propels a boat using a pole. | [noun] A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle. | [noun] An extortioner. POLEYN (11) POLICE (10) [noun] A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order. | [noun] A police officer. | [noun] People who seek to enforce norms or standards. POLICY (13) [noun] A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. | [noun] Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. | [noun] Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. | [noun] A contract of insurance. POLING (9) [verb] To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. | [verb] To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. | [verb] To furnish with poles for support. POLIOS (8) POLISH (11) [noun] A substance used to polish. | [noun] Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess. | [noun] Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation. POLITE (8) [verb] To polish; to refine; to render polite. | [adjective] Well-mannered, civilized. | [adjective] Smooth, polished, burnished. POLITY (11) [noun] An organizational structure of the government of a state, church, etc. | [noun] A politically organized unit; a state. POLKAS (12) [noun] A lively dance originating in Bohemia. | [noun] The music for this dance. | [noun] A polka jacket. POLLED (9) [verb] To take, record the votes of (an electorate). | [verb] To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). | [verb] To vote at an election. POLLEE (8) [noun] Someone who participates in a poll. POLLEN (8) [noun] A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.) | [noun] Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.) | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, pollen. POLLER (8) POLLEX (15) [noun] The thumb; the first, or preaxial, digit of the forelimb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the alula or bastard wing. POLYPI (13) [noun] A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem. | [noun] An octopus. POLYPS (13) [noun] An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane | [noun] A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles POMACE (12) [noun] The pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice (or a nut, etc., has been pressed to extract the oil). | [noun] Fish scrap. POMADE (11) [noun] A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny. | [noun] Any medicinal ointment. | [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). POMELO (10) [noun] The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh. | [noun] The tree which produces this fruit. | [noun] The grapefruit. POMMEE (12) POMMEL (12) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. POMMIE (12) [noun] (sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom. | [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) English; British. POMPOM (14) [noun] A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading. POMPON (12) [noun] A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading. | [noun] A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads. | [noun] Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose. PONCED (11) [verb] To act as a pimp. | [verb] Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. | [verb] To behave in a posh or effeminate manner. PONCES (10) [noun] A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's. | [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. PONCHO (13) [noun] A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head. | [noun] A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood. PONDED (10) [verb] To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. | [verb] To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. | [verb] To form a pond; to pool. PONDER (9) [noun] A period of deep thought. | [verb] To wonder, think of deeply | [verb] To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, mull over PONENT (8) PONGED (10) [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. PONGEE (9) [noun] A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves. PONGID (10) [noun] Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans PONIED (9) [verb] To lead (a horse) from another horse. | [verb] To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating. PONIES (8) [noun] Horsepower | [noun] (with the) horse racing | [noun] A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers. PONTES (8) [noun] A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ. | [noun] A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem. PONTIL (8) [noun] A punty; a metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. PONTON (8) POODLE (9) [noun] A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy. | [noun] A person servile towards someone whom he or she considers his or her superior. POOHED (12) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To dirty something with feces. | [verb] To say "pooh". POOLED (9) [verb] (of a liquid) To form a pool. | [verb] To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of. | [verb] To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. POOPED (11) [verb] To make a short blast on a horn | [verb] To break wind. | [verb] To defecate. POORER (8) [adjective] With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | [adjective] Of low quality. | [adjective] Used to express pity. POORIS (8) [noun] A type of unleavened bread from Indian and Pakistan. POORLY (11) [adverb] In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort. | [adverb] With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage. | [adverb] Meanly; without spirit. | [adjective] Ill, unwell, sick POOVES (11) [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] Less common variant of poof (male homosexual). POPERY (13) [noun] (usually derogatory) The teachings, practices and accoutrements of the Roman Catholic Church. POPGUN (11) [noun] A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string. | [noun] A firearm of unimpressive appearance. POPISH (13) [adjective] (used by early Protestants) of or pertaining to Roman Catholicism | [adjective] Acting like, or holding beliefs similar to, the pope. POPLAR (10) [noun] Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus. | [noun] Wood from the poplar tree. POPLIN (10) [noun] A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted; used especially for women's dresses. POPPAS (12) [noun] (sometimes childish) father, papa. POPPED (13) [verb] To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. | [verb] To burst (something) with a popping sound. | [verb] (with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart. POPPER (12) [noun] One who or that which pops. | [noun] A dagger. | [noun] A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. | [noun] A small carton of fruit juice with an attached plastic straw. POPPET (12) [noun] (term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child. | [noun] (term of endearment) A young woman or girl. | [noun] The stem and valve head in a poppet valve. POPPLE (12) [noun] Poplar | [noun] Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind). | [verb] Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner. POPSIE (10) PORING (9) [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. | [verb] To meditate or reflect in a steady way. | [noun] The act of one who pores. PORISM (10) PORKER (12) [noun] A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie). PORNOS (8) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] A pornographic film. POROSE (8) POROUS (8) [adjective] Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through. | [adjective] With many gaps. | [adjective] (by extension) full of loopholes PORTAL (8) [noun] An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. | [noun] A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. | [noun] A short vein that carries blood into the liver. PORTED (9) [verb] To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm. | [verb] To carry, bear, or transport. See porter. | [verb] To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command. PORTER (8) [noun] A person who carries luggage and related objects. | [noun] An ant having the specialized role of carrying. | [noun] One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform). | [noun] A person in control of the entrance to a building. PORTLY (11) [adjective] Somewhat fat, pudgy, overweight. | [adjective] Having a dignified bearing; handsome, imposing. POSADA (9) [noun] A traditional Mexican Christmas procession. | [noun] An inn in Spanish-speaking regions. POSERS (8) [noun] A particularly difficult question or puzzle. | [noun] Someone who asks a question or sets a problem. | [noun] Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. POSEUR (8) [noun] One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. POSHER (11) [adjective] Associated with the upper classes. | [adjective] Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive). | [adjective] (usually offensive) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else. POSHLY (14) POSIES (8) [noun] A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. | [noun] A verse of poetry, especially a motto or an inscription on a ring. POSING (9) [verb] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. | [verb] To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.). | [verb] To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.). POSITS (8) [noun] Something that is posited; a postulate. | [verb] Assume the existence of; to postulate. | [verb] Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. POSSES (8) [noun] A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. | [noun] A group of people summoned to help law enforcement. | [noun] A search party. | [verb] To mix with a vertical motion, especially when agitating laundry in a tub. POSSET (8) [noun] A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine. | [noun] A baby's vomit, comprising curdled milk. | [verb] To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate. POSSUM (10) [noun] An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. | [noun] Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands. POSTAL (8) [adjective] Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail. POSTED (9) [verb] To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review. | [verb] To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation. | [verb] To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger. POSTER (8) [noun] A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall. | [noun] An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something. | [noun] One who posts a message. | [noun] A posthorse. POSTIN (8) POTAGE (9) [noun] A thick creamy soup. POTASH (11) [noun] The water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plant material; used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer. | [noun] An impure form of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) mixed with other potassium salts. | [noun] Potassium. Chiefly used in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash". POTATO (8) [noun] The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant. | [noun] A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking | [noun] A camera that takes poor-quality pictures. POTBOY (13) POTEEN (8) [noun] Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. | [noun] (by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey. POTENT (8) [noun] A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes. | [noun] A prince; a potentate. | [noun] A staff or crutch. POTFUL (11) POTHER (11) [noun] A commotion, a tempest. | [verb] To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy. | [verb] To puzzle or perplex. POTION (8) [noun] A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical. | [verb] To drug. POTMAN (10) [noun] A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment POTMEN (10) [noun] A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment POTPIE (10) [noun] A pie, having pastry sides and bottom, and filled with meat etc | [noun] A dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings POTSIE (8) POTTED (9) [verb] To put (something) into a pot. | [verb] To preserve by bottling or canning. | [verb] To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. POTTER (8) [noun] One who makes pots and other ceramic wares. | [noun] One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots. | [noun] One who pots meats or other eatables. | [verb] To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things. POTTLE (8) [noun] A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size. | [noun] A receptacle, typically for potato chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs. | [noun] A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries. POTTOS (8) [noun] A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. | [noun] The kinkajou. POTZER (17) POUCHY (16) POUFED (12) POUFFE (14) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. POUFFS (14) POULTS (8) [noun] A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.). POUNCE (10) [noun] A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface. | [noun] Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. | [verb] To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. | [noun] A sudden leaping attack. POUNDS (9) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. | [noun] A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere. | [noun] The symbol # (octothorpe, hash) POURED (9) [verb] To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. | [verb] To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape. | [verb] To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. POURER (8) POUTED (9) [verb] To push out one's lips. | [verb] To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. | [verb] To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. POUTER (8) [noun] A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss | [noun] A breed of pigeon that inflates its crop POWDER (12) [noun] The fine particles which are the result of reducing dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. | [noun] A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. | [noun] An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. POWERS (11) [noun] Ability to do or undergo something. | [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | [noun] (physical) Effectiveness. POWTER (11) POWWOW (17) [noun] A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American council or meeting. POXING (16) POYOUS (11) PRAAMS (10) [noun] A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour. | [noun] A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter. | [noun] A type of dinghy with a flat bow. PRAHUS (11) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. PRAISE (8) [noun] Commendation; favourable representation in words | [noun] Worship | [verb] To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. PRANCE (10) [noun] A prancing movement. | [verb] (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs. | [verb] To strut about in a showy manner. PRANGS (9) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. PRANKS (12) [noun] A practical joke or mischievous trick. | [noun] An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception. | [verb] To perform a practical joke on; to trick. PRASES (8) PRATED (9) [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRATER (8) [noun] A person who prates; a chatterer. PRATES (8) [noun] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity. | [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. PRAWNS (11) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work. | [noun] Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner. PRAXES (15) PRAXIS (15) [noun] The practical application of any branch of learning. | [noun] The deliberate action of a rational being. | [noun] The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either. PRAYED (12) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PRAYER (11) [noun] A practice of communicating with one's God. | [noun] The act of praying. | [noun] The specific words or methods used for praying. | [noun] One who prays. PREACH (13) [noun] A religious discourse. | [verb] To give a sermon. | [verb] To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue. PREACT (10) PREAMP (12) [noun] Preamplifier | [verb] Preamplify PREARM (10) PRECIS (10) [noun] A summary or brief: a concise or abridged statement or view. | [verb] To write a précis of a work; to summarise, abridge PRECUT (10) [verb] To cut in advance. PREENS (8) [verb] To pin; fasten. | [verb] (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers. | [verb] To show off, posture, or smarm. PREFAB (13) [noun] A prefabricated building. | [noun] A prefabricated section of a building. | [noun] A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use. PREFER (11) [verb] To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. | [verb] To advance, promote (someone or something). | [verb] To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). PREFIX (18) [noun] Something placed before another | [verb] To determine beforehand; to set in advance. | [verb] To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start. PRELIM (10) [noun] Something preliminary, such as a trial, report, race, etc. | [adjective] Preliminary PREMAN (10) PREMED (11) [noun] An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine. | [noun] A premedication. PREMEN (10) PREMIE (10) PREMIX (17) [noun] A blend of components that has been mixed in advance of use or of further processing. | [noun] A manufactured beverage consisting of alcohol and soft drink, milk or other non-alcoholic drinks; an alcopop. | [verb] To blend in advance. PREPAY (13) [verb] To pay in advance, or beforehand PREPPY (15) [noun] A student of a prep school. | [adjective] Relating to things (such as clothing) that are typical of students at prep schools PRESET (8) [noun] Something that is set in advance. | [verb] To set something in advance. | [adjective] Set in advance, or as a default. PRESTO (8) [noun] A pair of fives as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. | [adverb] Very fast or quickly; a directive for the musician(s) to play in a very quick tempo. | [interjection] Used by magicians when performing a trick; ta-da; voilà. PRESTS (8) PRETAX (15) [adjective] Before the payment of taxes. PRETOR (8) [noun] (history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time: | [noun] (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title. | [noun] (translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy. PRETTY (11) [noun] A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. | [noun] Something that is pretty. | [verb] To make pretty; to beautify PREVUE (11) PREWAR (11) [adjective] Before a war. PREXES (15) [noun] (college slang) A president, especially of a university. | [noun] Prefix. PREYED (12) [verb] To act as a predator. PREYER (11) PREZES (17) PRIAPI (10) PRICED (11) [verb] To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on. | [verb] To pay the price of; to make reparation for. | [verb] To set a price on; to value; to prize. PRICER (10) PRICES (10) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRICEY (13) [adjective] Expensive, dear. PRICKS (14) [noun] A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing. | [noun] An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object. | [noun] A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point. PRICKY (17) PRIDED (10) [verb] To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. PRIDES (9) [noun] The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others. | [noun] (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. | [noun] Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris. PRIERS (8) PRIEST (8) [noun] A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple | [noun] A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish | [noun] The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood PRILLS (8) [noun] A rill, a small stream | [noun] A spinning top | [noun] A pellet, a granule, a small bead PRIMAL (10) [noun] A primal cut (of meat). | [verb] To take part in primal therapy. | [adjective] Being the first in time or in history. PRIMAS (10) PRIMED (11) [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [verb] To apply a coat of primer paint to. | [verb] To be renewed. PRIMER (10) [noun] A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations. | [noun] Similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer. | [noun] A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell. | [noun] Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive. | [adjective] First in time, initial, early. PRIMES (10) [noun] The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. | [noun] The religious service appointed to this hour. | [noun] The early morning generally. PRIMLY (13) PRIMOS (10) [noun] The principal part of a duet. PRIMPS (12) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. PRIMUS (10) [noun] One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority. PRINCE (10) [noun] A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. | [noun] A female monarch. | [noun] Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. PRINKS (12) [verb] To give a wink; to wink. | [verb] To look, gaze. | [verb] To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up. PRINTS (8) [noun] Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. | [noun] Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. | [noun] The letters forming the text of a document. PRIONS (8) [noun] A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue. | [noun] A petrel of the genus Pachyptila. PRIORS (8) [noun] A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot. | [noun] A chief magistrate in Italy. | [noun] (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record. PRIORY (11) [noun] A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress. PRISED (9) [verb] To force (open) with a lever; to pry. PRISES (8) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PRISMS (10) [noun] A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides. | [noun] A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light. | [noun] A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis. PRISON (8) [noun] A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government. | [noun] Confinement in prison. | [noun] Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home. PRISSY (11) [noun] A person who is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy. | [adjective] Excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Very feminine or dressy. PRIVET (11) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum. | [interjection] Hello, hi PRIZED (18) [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [verb] To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate. | [verb] To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry. PRIZER (17) PRIZES (17) [noun] The cost required to gain possession of something. | [noun] The cost of an action or deed. | [noun] Value; estimation; excellence; worth. PROBED (11) [verb] To explore, investigate, or question | [verb] To insert a probe into. PROBER (10) PROBES (10) [noun] Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. | [noun] Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. | [noun] An act of probing; a prod, a poke. PROBIT (10) [noun] A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses PROEMS (10) [noun] An introduction, preface or preamble. PROFIT (11) [noun] Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. | [noun] Benefit, positive result obtained. | [noun] In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game). PROJET (15) PROLAN (8) PROLEG (9) [noun] An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg. PROLES (8) [noun] A member of the proletariat; a proletarian | [noun] A pleb (ordinary person). PROLIX (15) [adjective] Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details. | [adjective] Long; having great length. PROLOG (9) [noun] A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel. | [noun] A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine. PROMOS (10) [noun] An interview or monologue intended to promote a character or an upcoming match. | [noun] An advancement in rank or position. | [noun] Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity. PROMPT (12) [noun] A reminder or cue. | [noun] A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. | [noun] A sequence of characters that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input. PRONGS (9) [noun] A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine. | [noun] A branch; a fork. | [noun] The penis. PRONTO (8) [adverb] Quickly, very soon, promptly. PROOFS (11) [noun] An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. | [noun] The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. | [noun] The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. PROPEL (10) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or physical action, to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward. | [verb] To provide an impetus for non-physical change, to make to arrive to a certain situation or result. PROPER (10) [noun] Something set apart for a special use. | [adjective] (heading) Suitable. | [adjective] (heading) Possessed, related. PROPYL (13) [noun] Either of two isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C3H7, formally derived from propane by the loss of a hydrogen atom. PROSED (9) [verb] To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way. PROSER (8) PROSES (8) [noun] Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. | [noun] Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse. | [noun] A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. PROSIT (8) [interjection] Toast to indicate one is drinking to someone's, or to each other's, health. PROSOS (8) PROTEA (8) [noun] Any of many South African flowering plants, of the genus Protea, having colourful cone-shaped flower heads. PROTEI (8) PROTON (8) [noun] A positively charged subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and determining the atomic number of an element, composed of two up quarks and a down quark. PROTYL (11) PROVED (12) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROVEN (11) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROVER (11) PROVES (11) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROWAR (11) PROWER (11) PROWLS (11) [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. | [verb] To collect by plunder. PRUDES (9) [noun] A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. PRUNED (9) [verb] To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. | [verb] To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). PRUNER (8) PRUNES (8) [noun] A plum. | [noun] The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. | [noun] An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. PRUNUS (8) [noun] A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume. PRUTAH (11) PRUTOT (8) PRYERS (11) PRYING (12) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PSALMS (10) [noun] A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. | [noun] One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship. PSEUDO (9) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual. | [noun] A poseur; one who is fake. | [noun] (travel industry) pseudo-city code PSEUDS (9) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur | [noun] A pseudonym. PSHAWS (14) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. PSOCID (11) [noun] Any insect of the order Psocoptera. PSYCHE (16) [noun] The human soul, mind, or spirit. | [noun] (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual. | [noun] A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia. | [verb] To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind. PSYCHO (16) [noun] A person who is psychotic or otherwise insane. | [noun] A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner. | [adjective] Psychotic, or otherwise insane. | [noun] A class, at a college or university, in which psychology is taught. PSYCHS (16) [noun] Psychology or psychiatry. | [noun] A psychologist; a psychiatrist. | [verb] To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up). PSYLLA (11) [noun] Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae. PSYWAR (14) [noun] Psychological warfare PTERIN (8) PTISAN (8) PTOSES (8) PTOSIS (8) [noun] The prolapse of a bodily organ, especially drooping of the eyelid or the breasts. PTOTIC (10) PUBLIC (12) [noun] The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group. | [noun] A public house; an inn. | [adjective] Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment. PUCKER (14) [noun] A fold or wrinkle. | [noun] A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. | [verb] To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. PUDDLE (10) [noun] A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. | [noun] Stagnant or polluted water. | [noun] A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. PUDDLY (13) PUEBLO (10) [noun] A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. PUFFED (15) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. | [adjective] Panting because of having exercised. PUFFER (14) [noun] Someone or something that puffs. | [noun] Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger. | [noun] A manually-operated inhaler. PUFFIN (14) [noun] The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. | [noun] The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. | [noun] Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses. PUGGED (11) [verb] To mix and stir when wet. | [verb] To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. PUGGRY (13) PUGREE (9) PUISNE (8) [adjective] Younger; junior. | [adjective] Insignificant, petty; ineffectual. | [adjective] Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior. PUJAHS (18) PUKING (13) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. | [noun] The act of one who pukes or vomits. PULERS (8) PULING (9) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PULLED (9) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | [verb] To attract or net; to pull in. PULLER (8) PULLET (8) [noun] A young hen, especially one less than a year old. | [noun] A spineless person; a coward. | [noun] A young girl. PULLEY (11) [noun] One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance). | [verb] To raise or lift by means of a pulley. PULLUP (10) [noun] An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. | [noun] A pullup resistor. PULPAL (10) PULPED (11) [verb] To make or be made into pulp. | [verb] To beat to a pulp. | [verb] To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. PULPER (10) PULPIT (10) [noun] A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon. | [noun] Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit. | [noun] A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker. PULQUE (17) [noun] A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants. PULSAR (8) [noun] A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically PULSED (9) [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [verb] To flow, particularly of blood. | [verb] To emit in discrete quantities. PULSER (8) PULSES (8) [noun] A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. | [noun] A beat or throb. | [noun] The beat or tactus of a piece of music. PUMELO (10) PUMICE (12) [noun] A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock. | [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUMMEL (12) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. PUMPED (13) [verb] To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). | [verb] (often followed by up) To fill with air. | [verb] To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. PUMPER (12) [noun] One who pumps something. | [noun] A steroid or other drug taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size. PUNCHY (16) [adjective] Having a punch; effective; forceful; spirited; vigorous. | [adjective] Behaving or appearing punch drunk. | [adjective] (of a person) Being over-reactive to routine events. PUNDIT (9) [noun] An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. | [noun] A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. | [noun] A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders. PUNGLE (9) PUNIER (8) [adjective] Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective. PUNILY (11) PUNISH (11) [verb] To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action. | [verb] To treat harshly and unfairly. | [verb] To handle or beat severely; to maul. PUNKAH (15) [noun] A fan, especially made of leaf or cloth and hung from the ceiling; in the past often operated by a servant. PUNKAS (12) PUNKER (12) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. PUNKEY (15) PUNKIE (12) PUNKIN (12) PUNNED (9) [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. PUNNER (8) PUNNET (8) [noun] A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries. PUNTED (9) [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [verb] To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance. | [verb] To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc). PUNTER (8) [noun] One who bets (punts) against the bank. | [noun] One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon). | [noun] One who punts a football. PUNTOS (8) PUPATE (10) [verb] To become a pupa. PUPILS (10) [noun] A learner under the supervision of a teacher or professor. | [noun] An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state. | [noun] The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina. PUPPED (13) [verb] To give birth to pups. PUPPET (12) [noun] Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove. | [noun] A person, country, etc, controlled by another. | [noun] A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll. PURANA (8) PURDAH (12) [noun] A curtain, especially as used to conceal and divide women from men and strangers in some Hindu or Muslim traditions. | [noun] A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains. | [noun] The state or system of social gender seclusion in some Muslim or Hindu communities. PURDAS (9) PUREED (9) [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. PUREES (8) [noun] A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid. | [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. | [noun] A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan. PURELY (11) [adverb] Wholly; really, completely. | [adverb] Solely; exclusively; merely, simply. | [adverb] Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault. PUREST (8) [adjective] Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied. | [adjective] Free of foreign material or pollutants. | [adjective] Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean. PURFLE (11) [noun] An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. | [noun] An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings. | [verb] To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. PURGED (10) [verb] To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. | [verb] To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds | [verb] To remove by cleansing; to wash away. PURGER (9) PURGES (9) [noun] An act of purging. | [noun] An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. | [noun] A cleansing of pipes. PURIFY (14) [verb] To cleanse, or rid of impurities. | [verb] To free from guilt or sin. | [verb] To become pure. PURINE (8) [noun] Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids. PURINS (8) PURISM (10) [noun] An insistence on pure or unmixed forms. | [noun] An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things. | [noun] An example of purist language etc. PURIST (8) [noun] An advocate of purism. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to purism. PURITY (11) [noun] The state or degree of being pure. PURLED (9) [verb] To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge | [verb] An inverted stitch producing ribbing etc | [verb] To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong. PURLIN (8) [noun] A longitudinal structural member bridging two or more rafters of a roof. PURPLE (10) [noun] A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. | [noun] (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. | [noun] Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. PURPLY (13) [adjective] Of or having somewhat of a purple color or hue. PURRED (9) [verb] Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented. | [verb] To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner. | [verb] To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure. PURSED (9) [verb] To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. | [verb] To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. | [verb] To put into a purse. PURSER (8) [noun] The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft. PURSES (8) [noun] A small bag for carrying money. | [noun] A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) | [noun] A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. PURSUE (8) [verb] To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | [verb] To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | [verb] To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). PURVEY (14) [verb] To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. | [verb] To furnish or provide. | [verb] To procure; to get. PUSHED (12) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action. | [verb] To press or urge forward; to drive. PUSHER (11) [noun] Someone or something that pushes. | [noun] A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule. | [noun] A girl or woman. PUSHES (11) [noun] A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing. | [noun] An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents. | [noun] A great effort (to do something). PUSHUP (13) [noun] An exercise done to improve upper body strength, performed by resting on one's toes and hands and pushing one's weight off the floor. | [noun] A push-up bra. PUSLEY (11) PUSSES (8) [noun] (often as a term of address) A cat. | [noun] A girl or young woman, or any child. | [noun] A hare. PUSSLY (11) PUTLOG (9) [noun] One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. PUTOFF (14) PUTONS (8) PUTOUT (8) PUTRID (9) [adjective] Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh. | [adjective] Vile, disgusting. PUTSCH (13) [noun] A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government. PUTTED (9) [verb] To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter. | [verb] To make a putting sound. | [verb] To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride. PUTTEE (8) [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. | [noun] (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting. PUTTER (8) [verb] To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. | [noun] One who puts or places. | [noun] A shot-putter. | [noun] A golf club specifically intended for a putt. | [verb] To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating. PUTZED (18) [verb] Waste time. | [verb] (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood. PUTZES (17) [noun] Fool, idiot. | [noun] Jerk. | [noun] Penis. PUZZLE (26) [noun] Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. | [noun] A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. | [noun] A crossword puzzle. PYEMIA (13) [noun] A type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia. PYEMIC (15) PYKNIC (17) [noun] A short, thickset person characterised by thick neck, large abdomen and relatively short limbs; a endomorph. | [adjective] Short and stout; endomorphic PYLONS (11) [noun] A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple. | [noun] A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables. | [noun] A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage. PYLORI (11) [noun] The opening in a vertebrate, including humans, at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum. | [noun] A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ. PYOSES (11) PYOSIS (11) PYRANS (11) PYRENE (11) [noun] A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar | [noun] The stone of a drupe PYRITE (11) [noun] The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS2), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system. | [noun] (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common. | [noun] (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral. PYROLA (11) PYRONE (11) PYROPE (13) [noun] A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone. PYRROL (11) PYTHON (14) [noun] A type of large constricting snake. | [noun] Penis PYURIA (11) [noun] The presence of pus in the urine. PYXIES (18)

PABLUMS (13) PABULAR (11) PABULUM (13) [noun] Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals. | [noun] Material that feeds a fire. | [noun] Food for thought. PACHISI (14) [noun] An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board. PACHUCO (16) [noun] A Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area. | [noun] An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló. PACIFIC (16) [adjective] Calm, peaceful. | [adjective] Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence. PACKAGE (16) [noun] Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. | [noun] Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. | [noun] A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager. PACKERS (15) [noun] A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation | [noun] A software program that compresses code or data. | [noun] A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. PACKETS (15) [noun] A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel | [noun] Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia). | [noun] A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet. PACKING (16) [verb] (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. | [verb] (social) To cheat. | [verb] To load with a pack PACKMAN (17) [noun] Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman. PACKMEN (17) [noun] Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman. PACKWAX (25) PACTION (11) PADAUKS (14) [noun] Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus. | [noun] The valuable timber of these trees. PADDERS (11) PADDIES (11) [noun] Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. | [noun] A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. | [noun] A fit of temper; a tantrum PADDING (12) [verb] To stuff. | [verb] To furnish with a pad or padding. | [verb] To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. PADDLED (12) [verb] To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc. | [verb] To row a boat with less than one's full capacity. | [verb] To spank with a paddle. PADDLER (11) PADDLES (11) [noun] A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat. | [noun] A double-bladed oar used for kayaking. | [noun] Time spent on paddling. PADDOCK (17) [noun] A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially for horses. | [noun] A field of grassland of any size, especially for keeping sheep or cattle. | [noun] An area where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. | [noun] A frog or toad. PADLOCK (16) [noun] A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle | [verb] To lock using a padlock. PADNAGS (11) PADOUKS (14) PADRONE (10) [noun] A patron; a protector. | [noun] The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. | [noun] A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian labourers, street musicians, child beggars, etc. PADRONI (10) PADSHAH (16) PAELLAS (9) [noun] A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked on a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish. PAESANI (9) PAESANO (9) PAESANS (9) PAGEANT (10) [noun] A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive. | [noun] An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume. | [noun] A spectacular ceremony. PAGEBOY (15) [noun] A boy who serves as a page. | [noun] A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under. PAGINAL (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a page; consisting of pages PAGINGS (11) PAGODAS (11) [noun] A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple. | [noun] (usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol. | [noun] A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India. PAGURID (11) PAHLAVI (15) [noun] The principal gold coin of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979). PAIKING (14) PAILFUL (12) PAINFUL (12) [adjective] Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. | [adjective] Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). | [adjective] Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. PAINING (10) [verb] To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | [verb] To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | [verb] To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. PAINTED (10) [verb] To apply paint to. | [verb] To apply in the manner that paint is applied. | [verb] To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint. PAINTER (9) [noun] An artist who paints pictures. | [noun] A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means. | [noun] A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use. | [noun] A mountain lion. PAIRING (10) [verb] To group into one or more sets of two. | [verb] To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating. | [verb] To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. PAISANA (9) PAISANO (9) [noun] (Alternate spelling of paesano, from Neapolitan language "paisano," often shortened to "paisan" or "paesan") among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent, a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian. | [noun] A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry. | [noun] Roadrunner. PAISANS (9) [noun] (Alternate spelling of paesano, from Neapolitan language "paisano," often shortened to "paisan" or "paesan") among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent, a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian. | [noun] A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry. | [noun] Roadrunner. PAISLEY (12) [noun] A motif of a swirling droplet. | [noun] A soft woollen fabric having this motif. | [adjective] Made from this fabric, or marked with this design. PAJAMAS (18) [noun] Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. | [noun] Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India. PAKEHAS (16) [noun] A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander. PALABRA (11) PALACED (12) PALACES (11) [noun] Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system. | [noun] A large and lavishly ornate residence. | [noun] A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions. PALADIN (10) [noun] A heroic champion (especially a knightly one). | [noun] A defender or advocate of a noble cause. (A defender of faith). | [noun] Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne. PALATAL (9) [noun] A palatal consonant. | [adjective] Pertaining to the palate. | [adjective] Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate. PALATES (9) [noun] The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus. | [noun] The sense of taste. | [noun] Relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste) PALAVER (12) [noun] A village council meeting. | [noun] Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. | [noun] Talk intended to deceive. PALAZZI (27) [noun] A large, palatial urban building in Italy. PALAZZO (27) [noun] A large, palatial urban building in Italy. PALETOT (9) PALETTE (9) [noun] A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours. | [noun] The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work. | [noun] A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc. PALFREY (15) [noun] A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women. PALIEST (9) PALIKAR (13) PALINGS (10) [noun] A pointed stick used to make a fence. | [noun] A fence made of palings. | [noun] A fence made of galvanized sheeting. PALLETS (9) [noun] Paleness; pallor. | [noun] A wooden stake; a picket. | [noun] Fence made from wooden stake; palisade. PALLIAL (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks. | [adjective] Of or relating to the pallium. PALLIER (9) [adjective] Like a pal; friendly. PALLING (10) [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. | [verb] To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. | [verb] To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PALLIUM (11) [noun] A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers. | [noun] A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion. | [noun] The mantle of a mollusc. PALLORS (9) [noun] Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness. PALMARY (14) PALMATE (11) [noun] A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate. | [adjective] Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point. | [adjective] (leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan. PALMERS (11) [noun] A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary. | [noun] A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms. | [noun] One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. PALMIER (11) [noun] A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar. PALMING (12) [verb] To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. | [verb] To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. | [verb] To move something with the palm of the hand. PALMIST (11) [noun] A fortuneteller who uses palmistry. PALMYRA (14) [noun] A palm, Borassus flabelliformis, with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes. PALOOKA (13) [noun] A stupid, oafish or clumsy person. | [noun] Someone incompetent or untalented. PALPATE (11) [verb] To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly in reference to an area or organ of the human body. | [adjective] Of palp, or having palp. PALSHIP (14) PALSIED (10) [adjective] Afflicted with palsy. | [adjective] Trembling as if afflicted with palsy. | [verb] To paralyse, either completely or partially. PALSIES (9) [noun] Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking. | [verb] To paralyse, either completely or partially. PALTERS (9) [verb] To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions. | [verb] To trifle. | [verb] To haggle. PALUDAL (10) [adjective] Pertaining to marshes, marshy, palustral, especially designating a plant's habitat PAMPEAN (13) PAMPERO (13) [noun] A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. PAMPERS (13) [verb] To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence. | [verb] To feed luxuriously. PANACEA (11) [noun] A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all. | [noun] Something that will solve all problems. | [noun] The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills. PANACHE (14) [noun] An ornamental plume on a helmet. | [noun] Flamboyance, energetic style or action; dash; verve. PANADAS (10) PANAMAS (11) PANCAKE (15) [noun] A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter. | [noun] A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder. | [noun] A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop. PANCHAX (21) PANDANI (10) PANDECT (12) [noun] Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565). | [noun] (by extension) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code. | [noun] (by extension) A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic; specifically a manuscript of the entire Bible. PANDERS (10) [noun] A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer. | [noun] An offer of illicit sex with a third party. | [noun] An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt. PANDIED (11) PANDIES (10) PANDITS (10) [noun] (Nepal) An honorary title for a learned man or scholar. PANDOOR (10) PANDORA (10) [noun] Any fish of the genus Pagellus. PANDORE (10) PANDOUR (10) PANDURA (10) PANELED (10) [verb] To fit with panels. | [adjective] Having panels. PANFISH (15) [noun] Any fish that is suitable for cooking in a frying pan by virtue of its size and taste. PANFULS (12) PANGENE (10) PANGENS (10) PANGING (11) PANICKY (18) [adjective] In a state of panic. PANICLE (11) [noun] A compound raceme. PANICUM (13) PANIERS (9) PANNIER (9) [noun] A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders. | [noun] A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits. | [noun] One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side. PANNING (10) [verb] To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold). | [verb] To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely. | [verb] With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful. PANOCHA (14) PANOCHE (14) PANOPLY (14) [noun] A splendid display of something. | [noun] (by extension) A collection or display of weaponry. | [noun] Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories. PANPIPE (13) [noun] A set of panpipes PANSIES (9) [noun] A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor. | [noun] A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia. Also called arguses. PANTHER (12) [noun] Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of India. | [noun] Any big cat of the genus Panthera. | [noun] A cougar; especially the Florida panther. PANTIES (9) [noun] Underpants for women and girls. | [noun] (in the plural) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys. | [noun] (usually in the plural, or in compounds) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women. PANTILE (9) [noun] A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape. | [verb] To tile with pantiles. PANTING (10) [verb] To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. | [verb] To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | [verb] To long for (something); to be eager for (something). PANTOUM (11) [noun] A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next. PANZERS (18) [noun] A tank, especially a German one of World War II. | [noun] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to the armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II. PAPAINS (11) PAPALLY (14) PAPAYAN (14) PAPAYAS (14) [noun] A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit | [noun] The fruit of this tree. | [noun] An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh. PAPERED (12) [verb] To apply paper to. | [verb] To document; to memorialize. | [verb] To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats. PAPERER (11) PAPHIAN (14) PAPILLA (11) [noun] A nipple-like anatomical structure. PAPISTS (11) [noun] A Roman Catholic, whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome. PAPOOSE (11) [noun] A Native American baby. | [noun] A backpack for carrying a baby, or specifically a cradleboard. PAPPIER (13) [adjective] Like pap; soft; mushy. PAPPIES (13) [noun] Father | [noun] Grandfather PAPPOSE (13) PAPPOUS (13) PAPRICA (13) PAPRIKA (15) [noun] Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking). | [noun] A variety of the spice. | [noun] (rare, commonly called "dried [bell/chilli] peppers" or "dried capsicums") A dried but not yet ground fruit of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper sold for use as a spice. PAPULAE (11) [noun] A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule. | [noun] One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes. PAPULAR (11) PAPULES (11) [noun] A small, inflammatory, irritated spot on the skin, similar in appearance to a pimple, but not containing pus. PAPYRAL (14) PAPYRUS (14) [noun] (usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley. | [noun] (usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant. | [noun] A scroll or document written on papyrus. PARABLE (11) [noun] A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy. | [verb] To represent by parable. | [adjective] That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable. PARADED (11) [verb] To march in or as if in a procession. | [verb] To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession. | [verb] To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner. PARADER (10) PARADES (10) [noun] An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators. | [noun] A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something. | [noun] Any succession, series, or display of items. PARADOR (10) PARADOS (10) [noun] Generally a screen or embankment to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack, from bomb splinters from behind, from enemy fire from a commanding height, or fire from flanking positions. In common English usage since World War II, the term "parados", particularly in trench warfare, has largely been discarded in favour of "rear parapet", which, etymologically speaking, is a contradiction in terms. In some contexts the term "rear traverse" is preferred, but no usage is exclusive. In fortifications that were enfiladed by enemy in positions commanding the fort, an internal parados could defilade the enemy, serving as physical protection and blindage. Usages of the term have varied inconsistently according to times and sources. Some sources use parados as a synonym for a traverse; some other sources represent parados as a special class of traverse and not necessarily at the back of any particular position. In trench warfare parados referred to a bank of earth or similar material behind the rear of the trench, opposite the parapet, affording protection from explosions and fragments when shells or bombs overshot the trench. PARADOX (17) [noun] An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa. | [noun] A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome. | [noun] A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true. PARAGON (10) [noun] A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others. | [noun] A companion; a match; an equal. | [noun] Comparison; competition. PARAMOS (11) [noun] A treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America. PARANGS (10) [noun] A short, heavy, straight-edged knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a tool and weapon. | [noun] A style of music originating from Trinidad and Tobago, strongly influenced by Venezuelan music. PARAPET (11) [noun] A low protective wall. | [noun] Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof. | [noun] A fortification consisting of a wall. PARAPHS (14) [noun] A flourish made after or below one's signature, originally to prevent forgery. | [noun] A mark used by medieval rubricators to indicate textual division. PARASOL (9) [noun] A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun. | [noun] A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails. | [noun] A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun. PARBOIL (11) [verb] To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked. PARCELS (11) [noun] A package wrapped for shipment. | [noun] An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form. | [noun] A division of land bought and sold as a unit. PARCHED (15) [verb] To burn the surface of, to scorch. | [verb] To roast, as dry grain. | [verb] To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat. PARCHES (14) [verb] To burn the surface of, to scorch. | [verb] To roast, as dry grain. | [verb] To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat. PARDAHS (13) PARDINE (10) PARDNER (10) [noun] (chiefly as a term of address) A friend or companion. | [noun] (chiefly as a term of address) A partner. | [noun] A local community banking co-op, often set up as an initiative for a social group unable to get formal credit or bank accounts, notably West Indians in Britain. PARDONS (10) [noun] Forgiveness for an offence. | [noun] An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed. | [verb] To forgive (a person). PAREIRA (9) [noun] Chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare. | [noun] A tonic diuretic drug derived from various South and Central American plants. PARENTS (9) [noun] One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father. | [noun] A surrogate mother | [noun] A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material PARERGA (10) [noun] A piece of work that is supplementary to or a byproduct of a larger work. PARESES (9) [noun] A paralysis which is incomplete or which occurs in isolated areas. | [noun] Inflammation of the brain as a cause of dementia or paralysis. PARESIS (9) [noun] A paralysis which is incomplete or which occurs in isolated areas. | [noun] Inflammation of the brain as a cause of dementia or paralysis. PARETIC (11) PARFAIT (12) [noun] A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur. | [noun] An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass. | [noun] A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs. PARGETS (10) [noun] Gypsum. | [noun] Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. | [noun] Paint, especially for the face. PARGING (11) [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. | [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls; a parge. | [noun] Pargeting. PARIAHS (12) [noun] A person who is rejected from society or home; an outcast. | [noun] A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised. | [noun] Someone in exile. PARIANS (9) PARINGS (10) [noun] A fragment or shaving that has been pared. | [noun] The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage. PARISES (9) PARKERS (13) PARKING (14) [verb] To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. | [verb] To defer (a matter) until a later date. | [verb] To bring together in a park, or compact body. PARKWAY (19) [noun] A road; a thoroughfare. | [noun] A scenic freeway. | [noun] A divided highway with a landscaped median. | [noun] A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange. PARLAYS (12) [noun] (originally United States) A bet or series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward; an accumulator. | [verb] To carry forward the stake and winnings from a bet on to a subsequent wager or series of wagers. | [verb] (by extension) To increase (an asset, money, etc.) by gambling or investing in a daring manner. PARLEYS (12) [noun] A conference, especially one between enemies. PARLING (10) PARLORS (9) [noun] The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room | [noun] The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside. | [noun] A comfortable room in a public house. PARLOUR (9) [noun] The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room | [noun] The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside. | [noun] A comfortable room in a public house. PARLOUS (9) [adjective] Attended with peril; dangerous, risky. | [adjective] Appalling, dire, terrible. | [adjective] Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual. PARODIC (12) PARODOI (10) PARODOS (10) PAROLED (10) [verb] To release (a prisoner) on the understanding that s/he checks in regularly and obeys the law. PAROLEE (9) PAROLES (9) [noun] The release of a former prisoner under condition of compliance with specific terms. | [noun] The amount of time a former prisoner spends on limited release. | [noun] A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released. PARONYM (14) [noun] A word derived from the same root or stem as another word. | [noun] A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word. PAROTIC (11) PAROTID (10) [noun] The parotid gland. | [adjective] Relating to the parotid gland. PARQUET (18) [noun] A wooden floor made of parquetry. | [noun] The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle. | [noun] In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions. PARRALS (9) PARRELS (9) PARRIED (10) [verb] To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.). PARRIES (9) [noun] A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying. | [noun] A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade. | [noun] (combat sports and martial arts) A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion. PARRING (10) [verb] To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. PARROTS (9) [noun] A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae. | [noun] A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others. | [noun] A puffin. PARROTY (12) PARSECS (11) [noun] Parallax second PARSERS (9) [noun] A computer program that parses. | [noun] One who parses. PARSING (10) [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. | [verb] To examine closely; to scrutinize. | [verb] To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. PARSLEY (12) [noun] A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars. | [noun] The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. PARSNIP (11) [noun] A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot. | [noun] The root of the parsnip, when used as a vegetable. PARSONS (9) [noun] An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector. | [noun] A Protestant minister. PARTAKE (13) [verb] To take part in an activity; to participate. | [verb] To take a share or portion (of or in). | [verb] To have something of the properties, character, or office (of). PARTANS (9) PARTIAL (9) [noun] A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant. | [noun] Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental. | [noun] Dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth PARTIED (10) [verb] To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. | [verb] To take recreational drugs. | [verb] To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. PARTIER (9) [noun] One who parties; a person who attends a party or other lively gathering. | [noun] One who takes part in "party and play" activity, combining sex and recreational drugs. PARTIES (9) [noun] A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | [noun] A person. | [noun] A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. PARTING (10) [verb] To leave the company of. | [verb] To cut hair with a parting; shed. | [verb] To divide in two. PARTITA (9) [noun] A type of instrumental suite popular in the 18th century PARTITE (9) [adjective] Divided into parts PARTLET (9) PARTNER (9) [noun] Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest. | [noun] One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass. | [noun] A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period. PARTONS (9) PARTOOK (13) [verb] To take part in an activity; to participate. | [verb] To take a share or portion (of or in). | [verb] To have something of the properties, character, or office (of). PARTWAY (15) [adverb] To some extent. | [adverb] In part. PARTYER (12) PARURAS (9) PARURES (9) [noun] A set of jewellery to be worn together. PARVENU (12) [noun] A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, rights, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. | [adjective] Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. PARVISE (12) [noun] An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral. | [noun] A portico surrounding such a space. | [noun] The porch of a church, or the room over it. PASCALS (11) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of pressure and stress; one newton per square metre. Symbol: Pa. PASCHAL (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to Easter. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the Passover. PASHING (13) [verb] To snog, to make out, to kiss. | [verb] To throw (or be thrown) and break. | [verb] To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces. PASQUIL (18) PASSADE (10) [noun] A pass or thrust. | [noun] A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground. PASSADO (10) PASSAGE (10) [noun] A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. | [noun] Part of a path or journey. | [noun] An incident or episode. | [noun] A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot. PASSANT (9) [adjective] (of a four-legged animal) Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground. | [adjective] Currently in use; in vogue. PASSELS (9) [noun] An indeterminately large quantity or group. PASSERS (9) [noun] One who succeeds in passing a test, etc. | [noun] Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass. | [noun] A passed pawn. PASSING (10) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASSION (9) [noun] Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate. | [noun] Fervor, determination. | [noun] An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest. PASSIVE (12) [noun] (grammar) The passive voice of verbs. | [noun] (grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice. | [noun] A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth. PASSKEY (16) [noun] A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door. | [noun] A key for entering a house. | [noun] A password. PASTELS (9) [noun] Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender | [noun] A drawing made with any of those colors. | [noun] A type of dried paste used to make crayons. PASTERN (9) [noun] The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof. | [noun] A shackle for horses while pasturing. | [noun] A patten. PASTERS (9) PASTEUP (11) PASTIER (9) [adjective] Like paste, sticky. | [adjective] Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor | [adjective] White-skinned PASTIES (9) [noun] An item worn (often by strippers) to conceal one's nipples. | [noun] A type of seasoned meat pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. | [noun] A circular, battered and deep-fried meat pie usually consisting of minced pork, onion, potato and seasoning and served in a bap or with chips. A peculiarity of Northern Irish "chippy" cuisine, rarely (if ever) seen outside the area. PASTILS (9) PASTIME (11) [noun] Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably. | [verb] To sport; to amuse oneself PASTINA (9) PASTING (10) [verb] To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. | [verb] To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. | [verb] To strike or beat someone or something. PASTORS (9) [noun] A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals. | [noun] Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people | [noun] A minister or priest in a church. PASTURE (9) [noun] Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding. | [noun] Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock. | [noun] Food, nourishment. PATACAS (11) [noun] The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos. | [noun] A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in Malta in the form of a large copper coin. | [noun] A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958. PATAGIA (10) [noun] The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals. | [noun] A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird. | [noun] One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula. PATAMAR (11) PATCHED (15) [verb] To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like | [verb] To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on. | [verb] To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. PATCHER (14) PATCHES (14) [noun] A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. | [noun] A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. | [noun] A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future. PATELLA (9) [noun] The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap. | [noun] A little dish or vase. PATENCY (14) [noun] The degree of openness of a tube, such as a blood vessel or catheter; the relative absence of blockage. Measured in percent. | [noun] Obviousness; clarity. PATENTS (9) [noun] A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent. | [noun] A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent. | [noun] License; formal permission. PATHWAY (18) [noun] A footpath or other path or track. | [noun] A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism. | [noun] A course of action. PATIENT (9) [noun] A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person. | [noun] (grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action. | [noun] One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. PATINAE (9) PATINAS (9) [noun] A paten, flat type of dish | [noun] The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals. | [noun] A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina. PATINED (10) PATINES (9) PATNESS (9) PATRIOT (9) [noun] A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country. | [noun] A fellow countryman, a compatriot. PATROLS (9) [noun] A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts. | [noun] A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts. | [noun] The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol. PATRONS (9) [noun] One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. | [noun] An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble. | [noun] A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant. PATROON (9) [noun] One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession renamed as New York. PATSIES (9) [noun] A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. PATTENS (9) [noun] The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. | [noun] Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. | [noun] Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs. PATTERN (9) [noun] Model, example. | [noun] A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements. | [noun] A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect. PATTERS (9) [noun] A soft repeated sound, as of rain falling, or feet walking on a hard surface. | [noun] Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer or a sports commentator. | [noun] One who pats. PATTIES (9) [noun] (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. | [noun] A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. PATTING (10) [verb] To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. | [verb] To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat | [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). PATZERS (18) [noun] A bad player; an amateur. PAUCITY (14) [noun] Fewness in number; too few. | [noun] A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth. PAUGHTY (16) PAULINS (9) PAUNCHY (17) [adjective] Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied. PAUPERS (11) [noun] One who is extremely poor. | [noun] One living on or eligible for public charity. PAUSERS (9) PAUSING (10) [verb] To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. | [verb] To interrupt an activity and wait. | [verb] To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. PAVANES (12) [noun] A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter. PAVINGS (13) PAVIORS (12) [noun] A person who lays paving slabs. | [noun] A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. | [noun] A brick or slab used for paving. PAVIOUR (12) [noun] A person who lays paving slabs. | [noun] A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. | [noun] A brick or slab used for paving. PAVISER (12) PAVISES (12) PAVLOVA (15) [noun] (foods) A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream. PAWKIER (16) [adjective] Shrewd, sly; often also characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour. PAWKILY (19) PAWNAGE (13) PAWNEES (12) [noun] One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn. PAWNERS (12) PAWNING (13) [verb] To pledge; to stake or wager. | [verb] To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. | [noun] The act by which something is pawned. PAWNORS (12) PAWPAWS (17) [noun] Any of several types of trees having edible fruit: | [noun] The fruit of these trees. | [noun] Grandfather. PAYABLE (14) [noun] (in the plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities. | [noun] (sometimes postpositive) A thing that may be paid. | [adjective] Due to be paid. PAYABLY (17) PAYBACK (20) [noun] An act of revenge. | [noun] A benefit, reward, a form of recompense. | [noun] A return on investment PAYDAYS (16) [noun] The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid. PAYLOAD (13) [noun] That part of a cargo that produces revenue. | [noun] The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft. | [noun] That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite. PAYMENT (14) [noun] The act of paying. | [noun] A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services. PAYNIMS (14) [noun] A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew. PAYOFFS (18) [noun] A payment. | [noun] A reward. | [noun] A bribe. PAYOLAS (12) PAYOUTS (12) [noun] An amount of money paid out. | [noun] The value of dividends paid to shareholders. PAYROLL (12) [noun] A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each. | [noun] The total sum of money paid to employees. | [noun] The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this. PEACHED (15) [verb] To inform on someone; turn informer. | [verb] To inform against. PEACHER (14) PEACHES (14) [noun] A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. | [noun] The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. | [noun] A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. PEACING (12) [verb] To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace. | [verb] To peace out. PEACOAT (11) [noun] A coat of heavy, navy-coloured wool, originally worn by sailors of European navies. PEACOCK (17) [noun] A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail. | [noun] A peafowl (of the genus Pavo or Afropavo), either male or female. | [noun] A vainglorious person . PEAFOWL (15) [noun] A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex). PEAHENS (12) [noun] A female peafowl. PEAKIER (13) [adjective] Sickly; peaked. | [adjective] Characterised by peaks. PEAKING (14) [verb] To reach a highest degree or maximum. | [verb] To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. | [verb] To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular. PEAKISH (16) PEALIKE (13) PEALING (10) [verb] To sound with a peal or peals. | [verb] To utter or sound loudly. | [verb] To assail with noise. PEANUTS (9) [noun] A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea. | [noun] A very small clam. | [verb] To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten. PEARLED (10) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. | [verb] To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains. | [verb] To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence. PEARLER (9) PEARTER (9) PEARTLY (12) PEASANT (9) [noun] A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture. | [noun] A country person. | [noun] An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. PEASCOD (12) PEATIER (9) PEAVEYS (15) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PEAVIES (12) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PEBBLED (14) PEBBLES (13) [noun] A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water. | [noun] A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. | [noun] A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface. PECCANT (13) [noun] An offender. | [adjective] Unhealthy; causing disease. | [adjective] Sinful. PECCARY (16) [noun] Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas related to pigs and hippos PECCAVI (16) [noun] An act of saying ‘peccavi’; an admission of guilt or responsibility. | [interjection] An expression of guilt or culpability. PECHANS (14) PECHING (15) [verb] To pant, to struggle for breath. PECKERS (15) [noun] Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly: | [noun] (by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose. | [noun] (by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage. PECKIER (15) PECKING (16) [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). | [verb] To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. | [verb] To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. PECKISH (18) [adjective] Mildly hungry | [adjective] Irritable; crotchety | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Peckham, a place in Southwark London. PECTASE (11) PECTATE (11) PECTENS (11) [noun] The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. | [noun] The pubic bone. | [noun] A comb structure. PECTINS (11) [noun] A polysaccharide extracted from the cell walls of plants, especially of fruits; under acidic conditions it forms a gel. It is often used in processed foods, especially jellies and jams where it causes thickening (setting). PECTIZE (20) PECULIA (11) PEDAGOG (12) [noun] A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young. | [noun] A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher. | [noun] A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally. PEDALED (11) [verb] To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion. | [verb] To operate a bicycle. PEDALOS (10) [noun] A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation. PEDANTS (10) [noun] A teacher or schoolmaster. | [noun] A person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar. | [noun] A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. PEDDLED (12) [verb] To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. | [verb] To sell illegal narcotics. | [verb] To spread or cause to spread. PEDDLER (11) [noun] An itinerant seller of small goods. | [noun] A drug dealer. PEDDLES (11) [verb] To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. | [verb] To sell illegal narcotics. | [verb] To spread or cause to spread. PEDICAB (14) [noun] A tricycle having a hooded cab to seat paying passengers. PEDICEL (12) [noun] A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster. | [noun] A stalk of a fungus fruiting body. | [noun] A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk. PEDICLE (12) [noun] A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate. | [noun] The attachment point for antlers in cervids. | [noun] A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue PEDLARS (10) [noun] An itinerant seller of small goods. | [noun] A drug dealer. PEDLARY (13) [noun] The trade or goods of a peddler. | [noun] Trickery PEDLERS (10) PEDLERY (13) PEDOCAL (12) PEEBEEN (11) PEEKING (14) [verb] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. | [verb] To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. | [verb] To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. PEELERS (9) [noun] A police officer. | [noun] One who peels. | [noun] A device for peeling fruit or vegetables. PEELING (10) [verb] To remove the skin or outer covering of. | [verb] To remove something from the outer or top layer of. | [verb] To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way. PEENING (10) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] The hardening of a metal surface by hammering, or by blasting with shot PEEPERS (11) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The eye. | [noun] Someone who peeps; a spy. | [noun] A private detective. PEEPING (12) [verb] To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird. | [verb] To speak briefly with a quiet voice. | [verb] To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. PEEPULS (11) [noun] The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa. PEERAGE (10) [noun] Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy. | [noun] The rank or title of a peer or peeress. | [noun] A book listing such people and their families. PEERESS (9) [noun] A noblewoman married to a peer. | [noun] A woman holding a noble title in her own right. PEERIES (9) [noun] A Shetland sheepdog. | [noun] Spinning top PEERING (10) [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [verb] To make equal in rank. PEEVING (13) [verb] To annoy; vex. PEEVISH (15) [adjective] Characterized by or exhibiting petty bad temper, bad-tempered, moody, cross. | [adjective] Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful. | [adjective] Easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important; irritable, querulous. PEEWEES (12) [noun] A short or small person; a small object. | [noun] A kind of small marble in children's games. | [noun] A player in a sports league for very young children. PEEWITS (12) [noun] Any of several birds PEGGING (12) [verb] To fasten using a peg. | [verb] To affix or pin. | [verb] To fix a value or price. PEGLESS (10) PEGLIKE (14) PEINING (10) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEISING (10) PELAGES (10) [noun] Fur, or any other form of the coat of a mammal PELAGIC (12) [noun] Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters. | [adjective] Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to oceans. PELICAN (11) [noun] Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch. | [noun] A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana. | [noun] A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation. PELISSE (9) [noun] A fur-lined or fur robe or gown, especially as part of a uniform. | [noun] A silk gown formerly worn by women, often lined or trimmed with fur. | [noun] An overgarment worn by Victorian children when outside. PELITES (9) [noun] A sedimentary rock containing very fine particles. PELITIC (11) PELLETS (9) [noun] A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter. | [noun] A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns. | [noun] Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones. PELMETS (11) [noun] An interior decorative item that is placed above a window to hide the curtain mechanisms, visually similar to a cornice or valance. PELORIA (9) PELORIC (11) PELORUS (9) [noun] A device used to take a bearing on a distant object. PELOTAS (9) PELTAST (9) PELTATE (9) [adjective] Shield-shaped; scutiform. | [adjective] (of leaves) Having the petiole attached to the lower surface instead of the margin. PELTERS (9) PELTING (10) [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. | [verb] To rain or hail heavily. | [adjective] Mean; paltry PELVICS (14) PEMBINA (13) PEMICAN (13) PEMPHIX (23) PENALLY (12) PENALTY (12) [noun] A legal sentence. | [noun] A punishment for violating rules of procedure. | [noun] A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment. PENANCE (11) [noun] A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act. | [noun] A sacrament in some Christian churches. | [noun] Any instrument of self-punishment. PENANGS (10) PENATES (9) [noun] The household deities thought to watch over the houses and storerooms of ancient Rome. PENCELS (11) PENCILS (11) [noun] A paintbrush. | [noun] A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. | [noun] An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. PENDANT (10) [noun] A supporting post attached to the main rafter. | [noun] A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. | [noun] The dangling part of an earring. PENDENT (10) [noun] A supporting post attached to the main rafter. | [noun] A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. | [noun] The dangling part of an earring. PENDING (11) [verb] To hang down. | [verb] To arch over (something); to vault. | [verb] To hang; to depend. PENGUIN (10) [noun] Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage. | [noun] An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere. | [noun] A nun (association through appearance, because of the black and white habit). PENICIL (11) PENISES (9) [noun] The male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and some other mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the male genitalia (excluding the scrotum). PENLITE (9) PENNAME (11) [noun] A fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name; a writer's pseudonym. PENNANT (9) [noun] A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition. | [noun] The winning of a competition, represented by a flag. | [noun] A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked. PENNATE (9) [noun] A penniform muscle | [adjective] Having a feather-like shape PENNERS (9) PENNIES (9) [noun] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d. | [noun] In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p. | [noun] In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. PENNINE (9) PENNING (10) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [verb] To write (an article, a book, etc.). | [noun] Writing; literary composition. | [noun] An old currency unit, the Swedish penning. PENNONS (9) [noun] A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear. | [noun] A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel. | [noun] A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing. PENOCHE (14) PENSEES (9) PENSILE (9) [adjective] Hanging down, suspended. PENSILS (9) PENSION (9) [noun] An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. | [noun] A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. | [noun] A wage or fee. PENSIVE (12) [adjective] Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking. | [adjective] Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness. PENSTER (9) PENTADS (10) [noun] A group or series of five things. | [noun] A mean average value of temperature, etc., taken every five days. | [noun] Any element, atom, or radical having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad. PENTANE (9) [noun] An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C5H12; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions. PENTENE (9) PENTODE (10) [noun] A thermionic valve similar to a tetrode with the addition of a third grid, the suppressor grid; was/is used in high quality audio and radio products PENTOSE (9) [noun] A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms. PENTYLS (12) PENUCHE (14) PENUCHI (14) PENULTS (9) [noun] The next-to-last syllable of a word. | [noun] The next to the last in a series. PEONAGE (10) PEONIES (9) [noun] A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers. | [noun] A dark red colour. PEONISM (11) PEOPLED (12) [verb] To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. | [verb] To become populous or populated. | [verb] To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. PEOPLER (11) PEOPLES (11) [noun] Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. | [noun] Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc. | [noun] A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler. PEPLUMS (13) [noun] A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics. | [noun] An individual film in this genre. | [noun] A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla. PEPPERS (13) [noun] A plant of the family Piperaceae. | [noun] A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. | [noun] A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties. PEPPERY (16) [adjective] Having the taste of pepper. | [adjective] Having a fiery temperament. PEPPIER (13) [adjective] Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy | [noun] A waiter at a restaurant who offers to grind pepper onto customers' meals at the table. PEPPILY (16) PEPPING (14) [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PEPSINE (11) PEPSINS (11) PEPTICS (13) PEPTIDE (12) [noun] Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond. | [noun] The peptide bond itself. PEPTIDS (12) PEPTIZE (20) PEPTONE (11) [noun] Any water-soluble mixture of polypeptides and amino acids formed by the partial hydrolysis of protein. PERACID (12) PERCALE (11) [noun] A fine, closely woven fabric, made from cotton, polyester or a mix of these, and used for sheets and clothing. PERCENT (11) [noun] A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred). | [noun] One part per hundred; one percent. | [adverb] For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). PERCEPT (13) [noun] Something perceived; the object of perception. | [noun] A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something. PERCHED (15) [verb] To rest on (or as if on) a perch; to roost. | [verb] To stay in an elevated position. | [verb] To place something on (or as if on) a perch. PERCHER (14) PERCHES (14) [noun] Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. | [noun] Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially: | [noun] Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper. PERCOID (12) [noun] Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae (originally named "Percoides" before family-name endings were standardized). | [noun] Any fish in the superfamily Percoidea | [adjective] Of or belonging to Percoidea, a taxonomic superfamily in the order Perciformes. PERCUSS (11) [verb] To strike; to hit; to knock; to give a blow to | [verb] To impact | [verb] To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface) PERDUES (10) PERDURE (10) [verb] To continue to exist, last or endure, especially for a great length of time. | [verb] To exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism). PEREION (9) PERFECT (14) [noun] (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. | [noun] A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes. | [adjective] Fitting its definition precisely. | [verb] To make perfect; to improve or hone. PERFIDY (16) [noun] A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust | [noun] Specifically, in warfare, an illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack. | [noun] A state or act of deceit. PERFORM (14) [verb] To do something; to execute. | [verb] To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain. PERFUME (14) [noun] A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor | [noun] A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor. | [verb] To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. PERFUSE (12) [verb] To permeate or suffuse something, especially with a liquid or with light. | [verb] To force a fluid to flow over or through something, especially through an organ of the body. PERGOLA (10) [noun] A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants | [noun] Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio. PERHAPS (14) [noun] An uncertainty. | [adverb] Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty. | [adverb] By chance. PERIAPT (11) [noun] A charm worn on a necklace; an amulet. PERIDIA (10) [noun] The outer layer that covers the spore-bearing organ in many fungi. PERIDOT (10) [noun] A transparent olive-green form of olivine, used as a gem. | [noun] A yellow-green colour, like that of the peridot. PERIGEE (10) [noun] The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter. | [noun] (more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is closest to the planet: the periapsis of any satellite. | [noun] (possibly obsolete outside astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is closest to the Earth. PERIGON (10) PERILED (10) [verb] To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk. PERILLA (9) PERINEA (9) [noun] The region between the human genitalia and anus. PERIODS (10) [noun] A length of time. | [noun] A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. | [noun] The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). PERIQUE (18) [noun] A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes. PERIWIG (13) [noun] A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women. | [verb] To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig. PERJURE (16) [noun] A perjured person. | [verb] To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court. | [verb] To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt. PERJURY (19) [noun] The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath. PERKIER (13) [adjective] Lively or enthusiastic. | [adjective] Standing upright; firm. PERKILY (16) PERKING (14) [verb] To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker. | [verb] Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. PERKISH (16) PERLITE (9) [noun] An amorphous volcanic glass formed by the hydration of obsidian. | [noun] The lightweight insulating material and aggregate resulting from expanding perlite glass by heat. PERMING (12) [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. PERMITS (11) [noun] An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal. | [noun] Formal permission. | [verb] To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. PERMUTE (11) [verb] Change the order of | [verb] Make a permutation of PERORAL (9) PEROXID (17) PERPEND (12) [verb] To ponder, consider. | [noun] A brick or stone that has its longest dimension perpendicular to the face of a wall, especially one that extends through the wall's entire thickness. | [noun] A vertical joint (usually mortar) between bricks or blocks in a horizontal course. PERPENT (11) PERPLEX (18) [noun] A difficulty. | [verb] To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle. | [verb] To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated. PERRIES (9) [noun] A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears; somewhat analogous to cider. PERRONS (9) [noun] A stone block used as the base of a monument, marker, etc. | [noun] A platform outside the raised entrance to a church or large building, or the steps leading to such a platform. PERSALT (9) PERSIST (9) [verb] To go on stubbornly or resolutely. | [verb] To repeat an utterance. | [verb] To continue to exist. PERSONA (9) [noun] A social role. | [noun] A character played by an actor. | [noun] The mask or appearance one presents to the world. PERSONS (9) [noun] An individual; usually a human being. | [noun] The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. | [noun] Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. PERTAIN (9) [verb] To belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of | [verb] To relate, to refer, be relevant to | [verb] To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable PERTEST (9) PERTURB (11) [verb] To disturb; to bother or unsettle. | [verb] To slightly modify the motion of an object. | [verb] To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force. PERUKED (14) PERUKES (13) [noun] A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries. PERUSAL (9) [noun] The act of perusing; studying something carefully. PERUSED (10) [verb] To examine or consider with care. | [verb] To read completely. | [verb] To look over casually; to skim. PERUSER (9) PERUSES (9) [verb] To examine or consider with care. | [verb] To read completely. | [verb] To look over casually; to skim. PERVADE (13) [verb] To be in every part of; to spread through. PERVERT (12) [noun] One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals. | [noun] A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable. | [verb] To turn another way; to divert. PESADES (10) PESETAS (9) [noun] The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos. PESEWAS (12) [noun] In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi. PESKIER (13) [adjective] Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child). PESKILY (16) PESSARY (12) [noun] A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a displaced uterus; also called therapeutic pessary. | [noun] (contraception) A diaphragm or cervical cap. | [noun] A vaginal suppository. PESTERS (9) [verb] To bother, harass, or annoy persistently. | [verb] To crowd together thickly. PESTIER (9) PESTLED (10) [verb] To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle. PESTLES (9) [noun] A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things. | [noun] A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape. | [noun] The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig. PETALED (10) PETARDS (10) [noun] A small, hat-shaped explosive device, used to breach a door or wall. | [noun] Anything potentially explosive, in a non-literal sense. | [noun] A loud firecracker. PETASOS (9) [noun] A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. PETASUS (9) [noun] A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. PETCOCK (17) [noun] A small valve, spout, or faucet operated by hand, usually used to release pressure or drain fluid. PETERED (10) [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. | [verb] (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. PETIOLE (9) [noun] The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem. | [noun] (insect anatomy) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps. | [noun] The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp. PETITES (9) PETNAPS (11) PETRALE (9) PETRELS (9) [noun] Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes. PETRIFY (15) [verb] To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals. | [verb] To produce rigidity akin to stone. | [verb] To immobilize with fright. PETROLS (9) PETROUS (9) [adjective] Resembling rock or stone in its hardness. | [adjective] Of the dense portion of the temporal bone that protects the inner ear. PETSAIS (9) PETTERS (9) PETTIER (9) [adjective] Little, small, secondary in rank or importance. | [adjective] Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable. | [adjective] Narrow-minded, small-minded. PETTILY (12) PETTING (10) [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). | [verb] To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously. | [verb] Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously. PETTISH (12) [adjective] Bad-tempered; peevish PETTLED (10) PETTLES (9) PETUNIA (9) [noun] Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids. | [noun] A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. | [adjective] Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. PEWTERS (12) PEYOTES (12) PEYOTLS (12) PEYTRAL (12) PEYTREL (12) PFENNIG (13) [noun] One hundredth of the former German mark (Deutsche Mark). PHAETON (12) [noun] A light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses | [noun] A large open touring motorcar with a folding top PHALANX (19) [noun] (plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears. | [noun] (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery. | [noun] (plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose. PHALLIC (14) [adjective] Having to do with the penis, especially in terms of shape. PHALLUS (12) [noun] A penis, especially when erect. | [noun] A representation of an erect penis symbolising fertility or potency. | [noun] A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male ratites. PHANTOM (14) [noun] A ghost or apparition. | [noun] Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion. | [noun] A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing. PHARAOH (15) [noun] The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty | [noun] The card game faro. PHARYNX (22) [noun] The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus. PHASEAL (12) PHASING (13) [noun] Movement through phases; arrangement of a sequence or cycle. PHASMID (15) PHELLEM (14) PHENATE (12) PHENOLS (12) [noun] A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C6H5OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic; once called carbolic acid. | [noun] Any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring. PHENOMS (14) [noun] Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf. | [noun] One who is hip and fashionable. PHENOXY (22) PHENYLS (15) PHILTER (12) [noun] A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver. | [verb] To impregnate or mix with a love potion. | [verb] To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion. PHILTRA (12) PHILTRE (12) [noun] A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver. | [verb] To impregnate or mix with a love potion. | [verb] To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion. PHLEGMS (15) PHLEGMY (18) PHLOEMS (14) PHLOXES (19) [noun] Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox. PHOBIAS (14) [noun] An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something). PHOBICS (16) [noun] A person who has a phobia. PHOCINE (14) [noun] A member of the subfamily Phocinae, comprising the "true" or "earless" seals. | [adjective] Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike. PHOEBES (14) [noun] Any of several birds of the genus Sayornis. PHOEBUS (14) PHOENIX (19) [noun] A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes. | [noun] Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. | [noun] A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies. PHONATE (12) [verb] To make sounds with the voice. | [verb] To use the voice to make (specific sounds). | [adjective] Voiced PHONEME (14) [noun] An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones. PHONEYS (15) [noun] A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. | [noun] A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. | [noun] Anything fraudulent or fake. PHONICS (14) [noun] The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling. | [noun] A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling. | [noun] Phonetics. PHONIED (13) PHONIER (12) [adjective] Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance. PHONIES (12) [noun] A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. | [noun] A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. | [noun] Anything fraudulent or fake. PHONILY (15) [adverb] In a phony way, or to a phony extent PHONING (13) [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. PHONONS (12) [noun] The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave. | [noun] A unit of phonemics. PHORATE (12) PHOTICS (14) PHOTOED (13) [verb] To take a photograph of. PHOTOGS (13) [noun] A photographer, especially a professional one. PHOTONS (12) [noun] The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson. PHRASAL (12) [adjective] Referring to, or used in the manner of, a phrase. | [adjective] (grammar) Consisting of multiple words, but behaving as a single part of speech. PHRASED (13) [verb] To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words. | [verb] To perform a passage with the correct phrasing. | [verb] To divide into melodic phrases. PHRASES (12) [noun] A short written or spoken expression. | [noun] (grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. | [noun] A small section of music in a larger piece. PHRATRY (15) [noun] A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities. | [noun] A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit. PHRENIC (14) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the diaphragm | [adjective] Relating to the mind or mental activity PHRENSY (15) PHYLLOS (15) PHYSEDS (16) PHYSICS (17) [noun] A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative. | [noun] The art or profession of healing disease; medicine. | [noun] Natural philosophy; physics. PHYTANE (15) PHYTOID (16) PHYTOLS (15) PHYTONS (15) PIAFFED (16) [verb] To strut pretentiously, to parade about. | [verb] To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly. | [verb] To ride a horse in this way. PIAFFER (15) [noun] A dressage movement in which a horse trots in a stationary position while using high lifting of the legs. PIAFFES (15) [noun] A calm, composed, elevated trot in place. | [verb] To strut pretentiously, to parade about. | [verb] To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly. PIANISM (11) [noun] One's way of playing the piano PIANIST (9) [noun] A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra. | [noun] (WWII) A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War PIASABA (11) PIASAVA (12) PIASTER (9) [noun] The subdivision of the South Sudanese pound, equal to 1/100 of a pound | [noun] A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real. | [noun] A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada. PIASTRE (9) [noun] A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real. | [noun] A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada. | [noun] A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina. PIAZZAS (27) [noun] A public square, especially in Italian cities. | [noun] A veranda; a porch. | [noun] A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building). PIBROCH (16) [noun] A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature. PICACHO (16) PICADOR (12) [noun] A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador. PICARAS (11) PICAROS (11) [noun] Rogue, adventurer PICCOLO (13) [noun] An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher. | [noun] A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant. | [noun] A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, 1/4 the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe. PICEOUS (11) PICKAXE (22) [noun] A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge. | [verb] To use a pickaxe. PICKEER (15) PICKERS (15) [noun] Agent noun of pick; one who picks. | [noun] Any user interface control that selects something. | [noun] A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre. PICKETS (15) [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. | [noun] A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. PICKIER (15) [adjective] Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right. PICKING (16) [verb] To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. | [verb] To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. | [verb] To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. PICKLED (16) [verb] To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. | [verb] To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. | [verb] (in the Python programming language) To serialize. PICKLES (15) [noun] A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup. | [noun] (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish. | [noun] The brine used for preserving food. PICKOFF (21) [noun] A play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base PICKUPS (17) [noun] An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player. | [noun] A pickup truck. | [noun] (usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players. PICNICS (13) [noun] An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink. | [noun] The meal eaten at such a gathering. | [noun] An easy or pleasant task. PICOLIN (11) PICOTED (12) PICOTEE (11) [noun] A variety of decorative carnation. PICQUET (20) [noun] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. | [noun] A stake driven into the ground. | [noun] A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. PICRATE (11) [noun] Any salt or ester of picric acid PICRITE (11) [noun] A variety of high-magnesium olivine basalt. PICTURE (11) [noun] A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. | [noun] An image; a representation as in the imagination. | [noun] A painting. PIDDLED (12) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. PIDDLER (11) [noun] One who piddles; a trifler or time-waster. | [noun] One who urinates. | [noun] A prisoner who works in a craft shop. PIDDLES (11) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. PIDDOCK (17) [noun] Any of the bivalve molluscs of the genus Pholas or family Pholadidae, which burrow into soft rocks. PIDGINS (11) [noun] An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. | [noun] A person's business, occupation, work, or trade. PIEBALD (12) [noun] An animal with piebald coloration. | [adjective] Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white. | [adjective] Of mixed character, heterogeneous. PIECERS (11) [noun] One who pieces; a patcher. | [noun] A child employed in a spinning mill to tie together broken threads. PIECING (12) [verb] (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative). | [verb] To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out. | [verb] To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag. PIEFORT (12) PIERCED (12) [verb] To puncture; to break through | [verb] To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry | [verb] To break or interrupt abruptly PIERCER (11) [noun] An instrument that pierces or perforates, such as a stiletto or piercel. | [noun] A person who pierces, especially one who carries out body piercing. | [noun] The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. PIERCES (11) [verb] To puncture; to break through | [verb] To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry | [verb] To break or interrupt abruptly PIEROGI (10) [noun] A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling. PIERROT (9) [noun] Alternative form of Pierrot | [noun] Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Tarucus and Castalia, notable for white contrasting with brown or black on the underwings. | [noun] An 18th-century women's low-cut basque with sleeves. PIETIES (9) [noun] Reverence and devotion to God. | [noun] Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country. | [noun] A devout act or thought. PIETISM (11) [noun] (often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity. PIETIST (9) PIFFLED (16) PIFFLES (15) PIGBOAT (12) PIGEONS (10) [noun] One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species. | [noun] The meat from this bird. | [noun] A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game. PIGFISH (16) [noun] Any one of several species of salt-water grunts, called also hogfish. | [noun] Any of several other fishes thought to resemble pigs, including PIGGERY (14) [noun] A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised | [noun] Piggish behaviour PIGGIER (11) PIGGIES (11) [noun] (hypocoristic) A pig (the animal). | [noun] (hypocoristic) A guinea pig. | [noun] (hypocoristic) A toe. PIGGING (12) [verb] (of swine) to give birth. | [verb] To greedily consume (especially food). | [verb] To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. | [noun] A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc. PIGGINS (11) PIGGISH (14) [adjective] Greedy or gluttonous | [adjective] Pigheaded | [adjective] Resembling a pig as being unpleasant or unclean PIGLETS (10) [noun] A young pig PIGLIKE (14) PIGMENT (12) [noun] Any color in plant or animal cells | [noun] A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder | [noun] Wine flavoured with spices and honey. PIGMIES (12) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. PIGNOLI (10) PIGNORA (10) PIGNUTS (10) [noun] The edible tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe. | [noun] Any of various types of hickory or their fruits; a hognut. | [noun] Simmondsia chinensis, jojoba. PIGOUTS (10) PIGPENS (12) [noun] A pigsty; an enclosure where pigs are kept. | [noun] Something extremely dirty or messy. | [noun] The pigpen cipher PIGSKIN (14) [noun] Leather made from the skin of a pig. | [noun] A football. | [noun] A white. PIGSNEY (13) PIGTAIL (10) [noun] A braided plait of hair. | [noun] Either of two braids or "tails" on the side of the head. | [noun] A twisted piece of tobacco. PIGWEED (14) [noun] Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder PIKAKES (17) PIKEMAN (15) [noun] A soldier armed with a pike. | [noun] A person who operates a turnpike. | [noun] A miner who works with a pick. PIKEMEN (15) [noun] A soldier armed with a pike. | [noun] A person who operates a turnpike. | [noun] A miner who works with a pick. PILAFFS (15) [noun] A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added. PILEATE (9) PILEOUS (9) PILEUPS (11) [noun] A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially | [noun] An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome. PILFERS (12) [verb] To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft. PILGRIM (12) [noun] One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance. | [noun] A newcomer. | [noun] A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck. PILINGS (10) [noun] A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material. | [noun] The act of heaping up. | [noun] (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc. PILLAGE (10) [noun] The spoils of war. | [noun] The act of pillaging. | [verb] To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war. PILLARS (9) [noun] A large post, often used as supporting architecture. | [noun] Something resembling such a structure. | [noun] An essential part of something that provides support. PILLBOX (18) [noun] A small box in which pills are kept. | [noun] A flat, concrete gun emplacement. | [noun] A doctor's carriage. PILLING (10) [verb] Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber. | [verb] To form into the shape of a pill. | [verb] To medicate with pills. PILLION (9) [noun] A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider. | [noun] A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger. | [noun] The person riding in the pillion. PILLORY (12) [noun] A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation. | [verb] To put in a pillory. | [verb] To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse. PILLOWS (12) [noun] A soft cushion used to support the head in bed. | [noun] A pillow lava. | [noun] A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. PILLOWY (15) PILOTED (10) [verb] To control (an aircraft or watercraft). | [verb] To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters. | [verb] To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.) PILSNER (9) [noun] A pale, light lager beer. PILULAR (9) PILULES (9) [noun] A little pill. PIMENTO (11) [noun] A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice. | [noun] A tropical berry used to make allspice. | [noun] The tree on which it grows. PIMPING (14) [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [verb] To prostitute someone. | [verb] To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out). PIMPLED (14) PIMPLES (13) [noun] An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus. | [noun] An annoying person. | [noun] Scotch (whisky) PINANGS (10) PINATAS (9) [noun] (Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out. PINBALL (11) [noun] (games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points. | [noun] The ball used in pinball. | [noun] A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players. PINBONE (11) PINCERS (11) [noun] Any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers. | [noun] A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws. | [noun] The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters. PINCHED (15) [verb] To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. | [verb] To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger. | [verb] To squeeze between two objects. PINCHER (14) PINCHES (14) [noun] The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. | [noun] A close compression of anything with the fingers. | [noun] A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip. PINDERS (10) PINEALS (9) [noun] The pineal gland. PINENES (9) PINESAP (11) [noun] A myco-heterotroph (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be a saprophyte, having racemes of drooping flowers. PINETUM (11) [noun] An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers PINFISH (15) PINFOLD (13) [noun] An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land. | [verb] To confine (animals) in a pinfold. PINGERS (10) [noun] A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems. | [noun] A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking. | [noun] A computer program that sends a ping message over a network. PINGING (11) [verb] To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [verb] (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. | [verb] To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. PINGUID (11) [adjective] Relating to fat. PINHEAD (13) [noun] The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.) | [noun] An ignorant, naive, foolish, or stupid person. | [noun] A telemark skier. PINHOLE (12) [noun] A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin | [verb] To form one or more pinholes in. PINIEST (9) PINIONS (9) [noun] A wing. | [noun] The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body. | [noun] Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing. PINITES (9) PINITOL (9) PINKENS (13) PINKERS (13) PINKEST (13) [adjective] Having a colour between red and white; pale red. | [adjective] Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet. | [adjective] Having conjunctivitis. PINKEYE (16) [noun] A highly contagious form of conjunctivitis. PINKEYS (16) PINKIES (13) [noun] A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb. | [noun] (less commonly) A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe. | [noun] Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals. PINKING (14) [verb] To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe. | [verb] To prick with a sword. | [verb] To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule. PINKISH (16) PINKOES (13) [noun] A socialist who is not wholly communist. PINNACE (11) [noun] A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually messenger boats, carrying messages among the larger ships of a fleet. PINNATE (9) [adjective] Resembling a feather. | [adjective] Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis | [adjective] Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck. PINNERS (9) PINNIES (9) [noun] A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes. | [noun] A simple jersey worn to denote teams or groups. PINNING (10) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [verb] (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin. PINNULA (9) PINNULE (9) [noun] Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet. | [noun] A part or an organ which resembles the barb of a feather, particularly the side branches on the stalks of crinoids; Any of the lateral divisions of the finger-like stalks of an encrinite. PINOCLE (11) PINOLES (9) PINONES (9) PINTADA (10) PINTADO (10) PINTAIL (9) [noun] A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail. | [noun] A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura. | [noun] The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete. PINTANO (9) PINTLES (9) [noun] (now dialectal) The penis, or tarse. | [noun] A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder. | [noun] (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves. PINTOES (9) PINWALE (12) [noun] A corduroy fabric having narrow ribs. PINWEED (13) PINWORK (16) PINWORM (14) [noun] Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals PINYONS (12) [noun] Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine. | [noun] A pine nut. PIOLETS (9) [noun] An ice axe/ice ax. PIONEER (9) [noun] One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow. | [noun] A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress. | [noun] A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper. PIOSITY (12) PIOUSLY (12) PIPAGES (12) PIPEAGE (12) PIPEFUL (14) PIPETTE (11) [noun] A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. | [verb] To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette. PIPIEST (11) PIPINGS (12) [noun] The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching. | [noun] The sound of musical pipes. | [noun] An act of making music or noise with pipes. PIPKINS (15) [noun] A small earthen pot. PIPPING (14) [verb] To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin | [verb] To hit with a gunshot | [verb] To peep, to chirp PIPPINS (13) [noun] A seed | [noun] Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red | [noun] Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties PIQUANT (18) [adjective] Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe. | [adjective] Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming. | [adjective] Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy. PIQUETS (18) PIQUING (19) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PIRAGUA (10) [noun] A Puerto Rican frozen dessert, shaped like a pyramid, made of shaved ice and covered with fruit-flavored syrup. | [noun] A dugout canoe. | [noun] A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank. PIRANAS (9) PIRANHA (12) [noun] Any of the carnivorous freshwater fish living in South American rivers and belonging to the subfamily Serrasalminae. PIRATED (10) [verb] To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea. | [verb] (intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of | [verb] (intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of PIRATES (9) [noun] A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. | [noun] An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. | [noun] One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission PIRATIC (11) PIRAYAS (12) PIROGEN (10) PIROGHI (13) PIROGUE (10) [noun] A canoe of shallow draft, made by hollowing a log. | [noun] A small flat-bottom boat of shallow draft. Specifically, a flat-bottom boat made out of a four-foot by eight-foot piece of plywood, the bottom being a two-foot eight-inch-wide eight-foot-long pointed-end lengthwise-centered oval cut from the piece, and the boat's sides being the two remaining pieces attached lengthwise to the outside edges of the oval. | [noun] A style of pasta shaped as a miniature canoe folded over. PIROJKI (20) PIROQUE (18) PISCARY (14) PISCINA (11) [noun] A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions. | [noun] A basin or tank, especially one for holding fishes or for growing aquatic plants. PISCINE (11) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic. | [noun] A public bath or swimming pool in France. PISHING (13) PISHOGE (13) PISMIRE (11) [noun] An ant. PISSANT (9) [noun] (obsolete outside dialectal) An ant. | [noun] An insignificant person. | [noun] A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances. PISSERS (9) [noun] A clam which squirts water, such as a geoduck (Panopea generosa) or a long-neck clam (Mya arenaria). | [noun] One who pisses. | [noun] That which pisses, particularly a penis. PISSING (10) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To discharge as or with the urine. | [noun] An act of urination. PISSOIR (9) [noun] A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets. PISTILS (9) [noun] A discrete organ in the center of a flower capable of receiving pollen and producing a fruit, it is divided into an ovary, style and stigma. PISTOLE (9) [noun] A Spanish gold double-escudo coin of the mid-sixteenth century, or any of various gold coins derived from or based on this. PISTOLS (9) [noun] A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine. | [noun] The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator. | [noun] A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises. PISTONS (9) [noun] A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump) | [noun] A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch PITAPAT (11) [noun] A series of quick tapping sounds | [verb] To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate | [adverb] With a quick tapping sound PITCHED (15) [verb] To cover or smear with pitch. | [verb] To darken; to blacken; to obscure. | [verb] To throw. PITCHER (14) [noun] One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc. | [noun] , the player who delivers the ball to the batter. | [noun] The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men. | [noun] A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle. | [noun] A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. PITCHES (14) [noun] A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap. | [noun] A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar. | [noun] Pitchstone. PITEOUS (9) [adjective] Provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy. | [adjective] Showing devotion to God. | [adjective] Showing compassion. PITFALL (12) [noun] A potential problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious. | [noun] A type of trap consisting of a concealed hole in the ground: victims fall into the hole and are unable to escape. | [noun] An antipattern. PITHEAD (13) [noun] The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine PITHIER (12) [adjective] Concise and meaningful. | [adjective] Of, like, or abounding in pith. PITHILY (15) PITHING (13) [verb] To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). | [verb] To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. PITIERS (9) PITIFUL (12) [adjective] Feeling pity; merciful. | [adjective] So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. | [adjective] Of an amount or number: very small. PITMANS (11) [noun] (plural "pitmen") One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc. | [noun] (plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill. PITSAWS (12) [noun] A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit. PITTING (10) [verb] To make pits in; to mark with little hollows. | [verb] To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting. | [verb] To bring (something) into opposition with something else. PITYING (13) [verb] To feel pity for (someone or something). | [verb] To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. | [noun] The act of one who pities. PIVOTAL (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or being a pivot. | [adjective] Being of crucial importance; central, key. PIVOTED (13) [verb] To turn on an exact spot. | [verb] To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc. | [adjective] Fitted with a pivot or pivots. PIXYISH (22) PIZAZZY (39) PIZZLES (27) [noun] The penis of an animal. | [noun] A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals. PLACARD (12) [noun] A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place. | [noun] A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. | [noun] Permission given by authority; a license. PLACATE (11) [verb] To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate. PLACEBO (13) [noun] A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. | [noun] The vespers sung in the office for the dead. PLACERS (11) [noun] One who places or arranges something. | [noun] One who deals in stolen goods; a fence. | [noun] (sheep) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality. PLACETS (11) [noun] A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc. | [noun] The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. PLACING (12) [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | [verb] To earn a given spot in a competition. | [verb] To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. PLACKET (15) [noun] A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings | [noun] A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat. | [noun] (by extension) A woman. PLACOID (12) [noun] Such a scale | [noun] Any fish having placoid scales, such as the sharks | [adjective] Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoid fish PLAFOND (13) [noun] A ceiling, especially one that is ornately decorated. | [noun] A painting or decoration on a ceiling. | [noun] The tibial plafond. PLAGUED (11) [verb] To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly. | [verb] To afflict with a disease or other calamity. | [adjective] Constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something). PLAGUER (10) PLAGUES (10) [noun] (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. | [noun] An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. | [noun] A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. PLAGUEY (13) [adjective] Causing annoyance or bother; irritating. PLAICES (11) PLAIDED (11) PLAINED (10) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To lament, bewail. | [verb] To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface. PLAINER (9) [adjective] Flat, level. | [adjective] Simple. | [adjective] Obvious. PLAINLY (12) [adverb] In a plain manner; simply; basically. | [adverb] Obviously; clearly. PLAINTS (9) [noun] A lament or woeful cry. | [noun] A complaint. | [noun] A sad song. PLAITED (10) [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat | [verb] To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid PLAITER (9) PLANATE (9) PLANCHE (14) [noun] A position where the gymnast is horizontal and face-down, using only the hands as support. PLANERS (9) [noun] A woodworking tool which smooths a surface or makes one surface of a workpiece parallel to the tool's bed. | [noun] A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool. (Analogous to a shaper but larger and with the workpiece moving instead of the tool.) Planers can generate various shapes, but were most especially used to generate large, accurate flat surfaces. The planer is nowadays obsolescent, having been mostly superseded by large milling machines. | [noun] A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. PLANETS (9) [noun] Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. | [noun] A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.) | [noun] A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion. PLANING (10) [verb] To smooth (wood) with a plane. | [verb] To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water. | [verb] To glide or soar. PLANISH (12) [verb] To repeatedly hammer (a sheet of metal) so as to shape and smooth it or create a decorative indented finish. PLANKED (14) [verb] To cover something with planking. | [verb] To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber. | [verb] To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash. PLANNED (10) [verb] To design (a building, machine, etc.). | [verb] To create a plan for. | [verb] To intend. PLANNER (9) [noun] One who plans. | [noun] A notebook or software in which one keeps reminders of items such as appointments, tasks, projects, and contacts. PLANTAR (9) [adjective] Relating to the sole of the foot. PLANTED (10) [verb] To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. | [verb] To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. | [verb] To place or set something firmly or with conviction. PLANTER (9) [noun] One who plants something. | [noun] A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor. | [noun] Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I. PLANULA (9) [noun] In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. | [noun] The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free-swimming and covered in cilia. PLAQUES (18) [noun] Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch. | [noun] A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event. | [noun] A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip. PLASHED (13) [verb] To splash. | [verb] To cause a splash. | [verb] To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter. PLASHER (12) PLASHES (12) [verb] To splash. | [verb] To cause a splash. | [verb] To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter. PLASMAS (11) PLASMIC (13) PLASMID (12) [noun] A loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from and replicates independently of the chromosomes, most commonly found in bacteria, but also in archaeans and eukaryotic cells, and used in genetic engineering as a vector for gene transfer. PLASMIN (11) [noun] A proteolytic enzyme that dissolves the fibrin in blood clots. PLASMON (11) [noun] All the genetic material in an organism. | [noun] The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium. PLASTER (9) [noun] A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes. | [noun] A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster. | [noun] A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; render, stucco. PLASTIC (11) [noun] A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting. | [noun] (metonym) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services. | [noun] Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population. PLASTID (10) [noun] Any of various organelles found in the cells of plants and algae, often concerned with photosynthesis PLATANE (9) PLATANS (9) [noun] A planetree. PLATEAU (9) [noun] A largely level expanse of land at a high elevation; tableland. | [noun] A comparatively stable level in something that varies. | [noun] An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver. PLATENS (9) [noun] The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. | [noun] The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression. | [noun] The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool. PLATERS (9) PLATIER (9) PLATIES (9) [noun] Any of two species (and hybrids) of tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (which also includes the swordtails). PLATINA (9) PLATING (10) [verb] To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal. | [verb] To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving. | [verb] To score a run. PLATOON (9) [noun] A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company. | [noun] A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other. | [verb] To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher PLATTED (10) [verb] To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map. | [verb] (obsolete except regional England) To braid, to plait. PLATTER (9) [noun] A tray for serving foods. | [noun] A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate. | [noun] The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played. | [noun] One who plats/plaits or braids. PLATYPI (14) PLAUDIT (10) [noun] (often in the plural) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. PLAYACT (14) [verb] To perform on, or as if on, a stage. PLAYBOY (17) [noun] A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities. PLAYDAY (16) PLAYERS (12) [noun] One that plays | [noun] One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. | [noun] A significant participant. PLAYFUL (15) [adjective] Liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive. | [adjective] Funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome. | [adjective] Fun, recreational, not serious. PLAYING (13) [verb] To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. | [verb] To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game). | [verb] To take part in amorous activity; to make love. PLAYLET (12) [noun] A short play (dramatic work). PLAYOFF (18) [noun] A final game in a series needed to break a tie. | [noun] A short series of games to select a league champion. PLAYPEN (14) [noun] An enclosure for children to play in. PLEADED (11) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEADER (10) PLEASED (10) [verb] To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. | [verb] To desire; to will; to be pleased by. | [adjective] Happy, content PLEASER (9) PLEASES (9) [verb] To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. | [verb] To desire; to will; to be pleased by. PLEATED (10) [verb] To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment. | [verb] To plait. | [adjective] Having pleats. PLEATER (9) PLECTRA (11) [noun] A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc. | [noun] A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs. PLEDGED (12) [verb] To make a solemn promise (to do something). | [verb] To deposit something as a security; to pawn. | [verb] To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health. PLEDGEE (11) [noun] Someone who receives a pledge PLEDGER (11) PLEDGES (11) [noun] A solemn promise to do something. | [noun] A security to guarantee payment of a debt. | [noun] A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved. PLEDGET (11) [noun] A small flat absorbent pad of cotton or wool, used to medicate, drain, or protect a wound or sore. | [noun] A string of oakum used in calking. | [verb] To apply a pledget to. PLEDGOR (11) [noun] Someone who gives a pledge | [noun] One who engages in or makes a pledge to a pledgee. PLEIADS (10) [noun] A group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members. PLENARY (12) [noun] Plenary session | [noun] (pedagogy) Part of a lesson, usually at or towards the end, designed to review or evaluate the learning that has taken place. | [adjective] Fully attended; for everyone's attendance. PLENISH (12) [verb] To fill up, to stock or supply (something). | [verb] Specifically, to stock land or a house (with livestock or furniture). PLENISM (11) PLENIST (9) PLENUMS (11) [noun] A space that is completely filled with matter. | [noun] A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something). | [noun] A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present. PLEOPOD (12) [noun] One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. PLESSOR (9) PLEURAE (9) [noun] The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. PLEURAL (9) PLEURAS (9) PLEURON (9) [noun] A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum. PLEXORS (16) [noun] A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes. PLIABLE (11) [adjective] Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded. | [adjective] Easily persuaded; yielding to influence. PLIABLY (14) PLIANCY (14) PLICATE (11) [verb] To fold or pleat (usually used in passive). | [adjective] Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated. PLIGHTS (13) [noun] A dire or unfortunate situation. | [noun] A (neutral) condition or state. | [noun] Good health. PLIMSOL (11) PLINKED (14) [verb] To make a plink sound. | [verb] (with "out") To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano. | [verb] To take part in the sport of plinking. PLINKER (13) PLINTHS (12) [noun] A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based. | [noun] The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall. | [noun] A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet. PLISKIE (13) PLISSES (9) PLODDED (12) [verb] To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). | [verb] To trudge over or through. | [verb] To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. PLODDER (11) [noun] One who plods. | [noun] A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously. PLONKED (14) [verb] To set or toss (something) down carelessly. | [verb] To automatically ignore a particular poster. PLOPPED (14) [verb] To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid. | [verb] To land heavily or loosely. | [verb] To defecate; derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet. PLOSION (9) [noun] Pronunciation of a consonant that is characterised by completely blocking the flow of air through the mouth. PLOSIVE (12) [noun] Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. | [adjective] Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. PLOTTED (10) [verb] To conceive (a crime, etc). | [verb] To trace out (a graph or diagram). | [verb] To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc). PLOTTER (9) [noun] A person who plots. | [noun] An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens. | [noun] An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart. | [verb] To splash around in something wet; to dabble. PLOTZED (19) [verb] To flop down wearily. | [verb] To faint. | [verb] To fall down dead. PLOTZES (18) [verb] To flop down wearily. | [verb] To faint. | [verb] To fall down dead. PLOUGHS (13) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. PLOVERS (12) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae. PLOWBOY (17) PLOWERS (12) PLOWING (13) [noun] The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting. PLOWMAN (14) [noun] A man who plows land with a plough. PLOWMEN (14) [noun] A man who plows land with a plough. PLOYING (13) PLUCKED (16) [verb] To pull something sharply; to pull something out | [verb] To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. | [verb] To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. PLUCKER (15) PLUGGED (12) [verb] To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole. | [verb] To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it. | [verb] To persist or continue with something. PLUGGER (11) PLUGOLA (10) [noun] Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television. PLUMAGE (12) [noun] Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally. | [noun] Finery or elaborate dress. PLUMATE (11) PLUMBED (14) [verb] To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound. | [verb] To attach to a water supply and drain. | [verb] To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of. PLUMBER (13) [noun] One who works in or with lead. | [noun] One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. | [noun] A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information PLUMBIC (15) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing lead. | [adjective] Specifically, of compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds. PLUMBUM (15) PLUMIER (11) PLUMING (12) [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. | [verb] Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something). | [verb] (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate. PLUMMET (13) [noun] A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, a plumb bob or a plumb line | [noun] Hence, any weight | [noun] A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines) PLUMOSE (11) [adjective] Having feathers or plumes. | [adjective] Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather. PLUMPED (14) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. PLUMPEN (13) PLUMPER (13) [adjective] Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight. | [adjective] Fat. | [adjective] Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright. PLUMPLY (16) PLUMULE (11) [noun] The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. | [noun] A down feather. | [noun] The aftershaft of a feather. PLUNDER (10) [noun] An instance of plundering. | [noun] The loot attained by plundering. | [noun] Baggage; luggage. PLUNGED (11) [verb] To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. | [verb] To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action. | [verb] To baptize by immersion. PLUNGER (10) [noun] A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction. | [noun] The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents. | [noun] The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps. PLUNGES (10) [verb] To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. | [verb] To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action. | [verb] To baptize by immersion. PLUNKED (14) [verb] To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound. | [verb] To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down. | [verb] To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch. PLUNKER (13) PLURALS (9) [noun] (grammar) The plural number. | [noun] (grammar) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. PLUSHER (12) [adjective] Very extravagant. | [adjective] Very expensive, or appearing expensive. | [adjective] (of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior. PLUSHES (12) PLUSHLY (15) PLUSSES (9) [noun] A positive quantity. | [noun] An asset or useful addition. | [noun] A plus sign: +. PLUTEUS (9) [noun] A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church | [noun] The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms. PLUTONS (9) [noun] A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma PLUVIAL (12) [noun] A rainy period | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or produced by rain | [adjective] Occurring through the action of rain PLUVIAN (12) PLYWOOD (16) [noun] Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other. | [noun] A specific grade or type of this construction material. | [verb] To fit or block up with plywood. PNEUMAS (11) [noun] A neume. | [noun] The spirit or soul. | [noun] One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul. POACHED (15) [verb] To cook something in simmering liquid. | [verb] To be cooked in simmering liquid | [verb] To become soft or muddy. POACHER (14) [noun] A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild. | [noun] A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water | [noun] An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher. POACHES (14) [noun] The act of cooking in simmering liquid. | [verb] To cook something in simmering liquid. | [verb] To be cooked in simmering liquid POCHARD (15) [noun] Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae, especially the common pochard, Aythya ferina. POCKETS (15) [noun] A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. | [noun] Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources. | [noun] An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table. POCKIER (15) POCKILY (18) POCKING (16) POCOSIN (11) [noun] A low, wooded swamp in (especially coastal) Eastern Maryland or Virginia; a palustrine wetland with deep, acidic peat soils. PODAGRA (11) [noun] Gout in the big toe PODDING (12) [verb] To bear or produce pods | [verb] To remove peas from their case. | [verb] To put into a pod or to enter a pod. PODESTA (10) PODGIER (11) [adjective] Slightly fat. PODGILY (14) PODITES (10) PODITIC (12) PODIUMS (12) [noun] A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly. | [noun] A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize. PODLIKE (14) PODSOLS (10) [noun] The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests. PODZOLS (19) [noun] The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests. POESIES (9) POETESS (9) [noun] A female poet. POETICS (11) [noun] The theory of poetry, or of literature in general. POETISE (9) [verb] To write as a poet; to put into a poem POETIZE (18) [verb] To make poetic. | [verb] To compose poetry. POGONIA (10) [noun] Any of the orchid genus Pogonia. POGONIP (12) POGROMS (12) [noun] A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews. | [noun] An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators. POINDED (11) [verb] To seize property in this manner POINTED (10) [verb] To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it. | [verb] To draw attention to something or indicate a direction. | [verb] To face in a particular direction. POINTER (9) [noun] Anything that points or is used for pointing. | [noun] A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow. | [noun] A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device. POINTES (9) [noun] The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe. POISERS (9) POISING (10) [verb] To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. | [verb] To counterpoise; to counterbalance. | [verb] To be of a given weight; to weigh. POISONS (9) [noun] A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism. | [noun] Something that harms a person or thing. | [noun] A drink; liquor. POITREL (9) POKIEST (13) [adjective] Slow. | [adjective] Stupid; mentally dull. | [adjective] (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped, and often shabby. POLARON (9) POLDERS (10) [noun] An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes. POLEAXE (16) [noun] An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle. | [noun] A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike. | [verb] To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe. POLECAT (11) [noun] A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela. | [noun] A skunk. | [noun] A tubular device used to support lights on a set. POLEMIC (13) [noun] A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. | [noun] An argument or controversy. | [noun] A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something. POLENTA (9) [noun] Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled. POLEYNS (12) POLICED (12) [verb] To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). | [verb] To clean up an area. | [verb] To enforce norms or standards upon. POLICES (11) [verb] To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). | [verb] To clean up an area. | [verb] To enforce norms or standards upon. POLITER (9) [adjective] Well-mannered, civilized. | [adjective] Smooth, polished, burnished. POLITIC (11) [noun] A politician. | [verb] To engage in political activity; politick. | [adjective] Of or relating to polity, or civil government; political. POLKAED (14) [verb] To dance the polka. POLLACK (15) [noun] Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family. | [verb] To fish for pollock. POLLARD (10) [noun] A pruned tree; the wood of such trees. | [noun] A buck deer that has shed its antlers. | [noun] A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats. POLLEES (9) [noun] Someone who participates in a poll. POLLENS (9) [noun] A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.) | [noun] Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.) POLLERS (9) POLLING (10) [verb] To take, record the votes of (an electorate). | [verb] To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). | [verb] To vote at an election. POLLIST (9) POLLOCK (15) [noun] Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family. | [verb] To fish for pollock. | [verb] To splatter, as with paint. POLLUTE (9) [verb] To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product. | [verb] To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor. | [verb] To corrupt or profane POLOIST (9) POLYCOT (14) POLYENE (12) [noun] An organic compound containing several double bonds, especially one containing a sequence of many alternating single and double bonds POLYGON (13) [noun] A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines. | [noun] The boundary of such a figure. | [noun] (more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly. POLYMER (14) [noun] A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules. | [noun] A material consisting of such polymer molecules. POLYNYA (15) [noun] A naturally formed area of open water surrounded by sea ice, especially in the Arctic. POLYNYI (15) POLYOMA (14) POLYPOD (15) [noun] An animal with many feet | [noun] Any fern of the family Polypodiaceae | [adjective] Having many feet. POLYPUS (14) [noun] A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem. | [noun] An octopus. POMACES (13) POMADED (13) [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). POMADES (12) [noun] A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny. | [noun] Any medicinal ointment. | [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). POMATUM (13) [noun] Pomade. | [verb] To dress with pomatum. POMELOS (11) [noun] The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh. | [noun] The tree which produces this fruit. | [noun] The grapefruit. POMFRET (14) [noun] A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species. | [noun] Several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus. POMMELS (13) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. POMMIES (13) [noun] (sometimes pejorative) An English immigrant; a pom. | [noun] A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman. POMPANO (13) [noun] Any of various carangid fish, of the genus Trachinotus or species Alectis ciliaris, the African pompano, from coastal parts of the North Atlantic. | [noun] An edible butterfish, Peprilus simillimus, the Pacific pompano. POMPOMS (15) [noun] A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading. POMPONS (13) [noun] A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading. | [noun] A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads. | [noun] Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose. POMPOUS (13) [adjective] Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important. PONCHOS (14) [noun] A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head. | [noun] A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood. PONCING (12) [verb] To act as a pimp. | [verb] Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. | [verb] To behave in a posh or effeminate manner. PONDERS (10) [verb] To wonder, think of deeply | [verb] To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, mull over | [verb] To weigh PONDING (11) [verb] To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. | [verb] To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. | [verb] To form a pond; to pool. PONGEES (10) [noun] A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves. PONGIDS (11) [noun] Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans PONGING (11) [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. PONIARD (10) [noun] A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. | [verb] To stab with a poniard. PONTIFF (15) [noun] A bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope. | [noun] Any chief figure or leader of a religion. | [noun] A pontifex. PONTILS (9) [noun] A punty; a metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. PONTINE (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the pons in the brain stem. PONTONS (9) PONTOON (9) [noun] A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge. | [noun] A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock. | [noun] A box used to raise a sunken vessel. | [noun] A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it. PONYING (13) [verb] To lead (a horse) from another horse. | [verb] To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating. POOCHED (15) [verb] To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out. | [adjective] Made unusable; broken; buggered. POOCHES (14) [noun] A dog. | [noun] A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel. | [noun] A bulge, an enlarged part POODLES (10) [noun] A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy. | [noun] A person servile towards someone whom he or she considers his or her superior. POOFTAH (15) POOFTER (12) [noun] A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one. | [noun] A pansy, an effeminate man. POOHING (13) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To dirty something with feces. | [verb] To say "pooh". POOLING (10) [verb] (of a liquid) To form a pool. | [verb] To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of. | [verb] To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. POOPING (12) [verb] To make a short blast on a horn | [verb] To break wind. | [verb] To defecate. POOREST (9) [adjective] With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | [adjective] Of low quality. | [adjective] Used to express pity. POORISH (12) POPCORN (13) [noun] A snack food made from corn/maize kernels popped by dry heating. | [noun] A type of maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping. | [noun] A kind of stitch similar to a bobble. POPEDOM (14) POPEYED (15) POPGUNS (12) [noun] A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string. | [noun] A firearm of unimpressive appearance. POPLARS (11) [noun] Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus. | [noun] Wood from the poplar tree. POPLINS (11) [noun] A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted; used especially for women's dresses. POPOVER (14) [noun] A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding. | [noun] A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window. | [noun] A kind of versatile wraparound dress. POPPERS (13) [noun] A small carton of fruit juice with an attached plastic straw. | [noun] One who or that which pops. | [noun] A dagger. POPPETS (13) [noun] (term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child. | [noun] (term of endearment) A young woman or girl. | [noun] The stem and valve head in a poppet valve. POPPIED (14) POPPIES (13) [noun] Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially the common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant. | [noun] A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower. | [noun] A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Sunday. POPPING (14) [verb] To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. | [verb] To burst (something) with a popping sound. | [verb] (with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart. POPPLED (14) [verb] Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner. | [verb] To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water. POPPLES (13) [noun] Poplar | [noun] Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind). | [verb] Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner. POPSIES (11) [noun] Grandfather. | [noun] Father. | [noun] A girl. POPULAR (11) [noun] A person who is popular, especially at a school. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation. | [noun] A member of the Populares PORCHES (14) [noun] A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. | [noun] A portico; a covered walk. | [noun] The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft. PORCINE (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to pigs. | [adjective] Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese. PORCINI (11) [noun] An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized for its flavor. PORCINO (11) PORGIES (10) [noun] Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream. PORISMS (11) PORKERS (13) [noun] A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter. | [noun] An obese person. | [noun] A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie). PORKIER (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of pork. | [adjective] Rather fat; chubby. PORKIES (13) [noun] A lie. | [noun] (in the plural) An eye. PORKPIE (15) [noun] A shortcrust pie containing chopped pork. | [noun] A pork pie hat. | [noun] A lie. PORNIER (9) [adjective] Reminiscent of pornography; somewhat pornographic. PORRECT (11) PORTAGE (10) [noun] An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways. | [noun] The route used for such carrying. | [noun] A charge made for carrying something. PORTALS (9) [noun] An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. | [noun] A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. | [noun] A short vein that carries blood into the liver. PORTEND (10) [verb] To serve as a warning or omen of. | [verb] To signify; to denote. PORTENT (9) [noun] Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen. | [noun] A portending; significance | [noun] Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy. PORTERS (9) [noun] A person who carries luggage and related objects. | [noun] An ant having the specialized role of carrying. | [noun] One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform). PORTICO (11) [noun] A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building. PORTING (10) [verb] To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm. | [verb] To carry, bear, or transport. See porter. | [verb] To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command. PORTION (9) [noun] An allocated amount. | [noun] That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. | [noun] One's fate; lot. PORTRAY (12) [verb] To paint or draw the likeness of. | [verb] To describe in words; to convey. | [verb] To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event. POSADAS (10) [noun] A traditional Mexican Christmas procession. | [noun] An inn in Spanish-speaking regions. POSEURS (9) [noun] One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. POSHEST (12) [adjective] Associated with the upper classes. | [adjective] Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive). | [adjective] (usually offensive) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else. POSITED (10) [verb] Assume the existence of; to postulate. | [verb] Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. | [verb] Put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position. POSSESS (9) [verb] To have; to have ownership of. | [verb] To take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner. | [verb] (chiefly with of) To vest ownership in (someone, or oneself); to give someone power or knowledge; to acquaint; to inform. POSSETS (9) [noun] A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine. | [noun] A baby's vomit, comprising curdled milk. | [verb] To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate. POSSUMS (11) [noun] An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. | [noun] Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands. POSTAGE (10) [noun] The charge for posting an item. | [noun] The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment. POSTALS (9) POSTBAG (12) [noun] A bag used for carrying post (mail) POSTBOX (18) [noun] A box in which post can be left by a sender to be picked up by a courier or postman (postal worker). POSTBOY (14) POSTDOC (12) [noun] A postdoctoral academic research position. | [noun] Someone in such a position. POSTEEN (9) POSTERN (9) [noun] A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance. | [noun] By extension, a separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc. | [noun] A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. POSTERS (9) [noun] A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall. | [noun] An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something. | [noun] One who posts a message. POSTFIX (19) [noun] Suffix. | [verb] To suffix. | [verb] To subject a sample to postfixation POSTING (10) [verb] To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review. | [verb] To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation. | [verb] To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger. POSTINS (9) POSTMAN (11) [noun] Someone (implied male) who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. | [noun] One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman. POSTMEN (11) [noun] Someone (implied male) who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. | [noun] One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman. POSTTAX (16) POSTURE (9) [noun] The way a person holds and positions their body. | [noun] A situation or condition. | [noun] One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person. POSTWAR (12) [adjective] Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict. POTABLE (11) [noun] Any drinkable liquid; a beverage. | [adjective] Good for drinking without fear of disease or poisoning. POTAGES (10) [noun] A thick creamy soup. POTAMIC (13) POTBOIL (11) POTBOYS (14) POTEENS (9) POTENCE (11) POTENCY (14) [noun] Strength | [noun] Power | [noun] The ability or capacity to perform something. POTFULS (12) POTHEAD (13) [noun] A person who smokes cannabis frequently, to excess. POTHEEN (12) [noun] Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. | [noun] (by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey. POTHERB (14) [noun] Any plant whose leaves, stems or flowers may be used as a culinary herb. POTHERS (12) [noun] A commotion, a tempest. POTHOLE (12) [noun] A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic. | [noun] A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream. | [noun] A vertical cave system, often found in limestone. | [noun] A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed. POTHOOK (16) [noun] An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire. | [noun] A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl. POTICHE (14) POTIONS (9) [noun] A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical. POTLACH (14) POTLIKE (13) POTLINE (9) POTLUCK (15) [noun] A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available. | [noun] (by extension) Whatever is available in a particular situation. | [noun] (originally Canada) A shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought (sometimes without prior arrangement); a potlatch; also, a dish of food brought to such a meal. POTPIES (11) [noun] A pie, having pastry sides and bottom, and filled with meat etc | [noun] A dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings POTSHOT (12) [noun] A shot taken at an easy or random target. | [noun] Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. | [verb] To fire potshots. POTSIES (9) POTTAGE (10) [noun] A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An oatmeal porridge. POTTEEN (9) POTTERS (9) [noun] One who makes pots and other ceramic wares. | [noun] One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots. | [noun] One who pots meats or other eatables. POTTERY (12) [noun] Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed. | [noun] A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made. | [noun] The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay. POTTIER (9) [adjective] Insane. | [adjective] Easy to pot the ball on. POTTIES (9) [noun] (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children. | [noun] (diminutive) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse. POTTING (10) [verb] To put (something) into a pot. | [verb] To preserve by bottling or canning. | [verb] To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. POTTLES (9) [noun] A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size. | [noun] A receptacle, typically for potato chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs. | [noun] A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries. POTZERS (18) POUCHED (15) [verb] To enclose within a pouch. | [verb] To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. | [verb] (of fowls and fish) To swallow. POUCHES (14) [noun] A small bag usually closed with a drawstring. | [noun] A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young. | [noun] Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch. POUFFED (16) POUFFES (15) [noun] The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind. | [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] A headdress for women popular in 18th century France. POULARD (10) POULTER (9) POULTRY (12) [noun] Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs). | [noun] The meat from a domestic fowl. POUNCED (12) [verb] To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. | [verb] To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something. | [verb] To attack suddenly by leaping. POUNCER (11) POUNCES (11) [verb] To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. | [verb] To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something. | [verb] To attack suddenly by leaping. POUNDAL (10) [noun] A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second. POUNDED (11) [verb] To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound. | [verb] To strike hard, usually repeatedly. | [verb] To crush to pieces; to pulverize. POUNDER (10) [noun] A vessel in which something is pounded, or an implement used in pounding. | [noun] (in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot in pounds. | [noun] (in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds. POURERS (9) POURING (10) [verb] To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. | [verb] To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape. | [verb] To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. POUSSIE (9) POUTERS (9) [noun] A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss | [noun] A breed of pigeon that inflates its crop POUTFUL (12) POUTIER (9) [adjective] Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. POUTING (10) [verb] To push out one's lips. | [verb] To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. | [verb] To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. | [noun] A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus. POVERTY (15) [noun] The quality or state of being poor; lack of money | [noun] Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness POWDERS (13) [noun] The fine particles which are the result of reducing dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. | [noun] A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. | [noun] An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. POWDERY (16) [adjective] Of or pertaining to powder. POWERED (13) [verb] To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | [verb] To hit or kick something forcefully. | [verb] To enable or provide the impetus for. POWTERS (12) POWWOWS (18) [noun] A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American council or meeting. PRACTIC (13) PRAETOR (9) [noun] (history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time: | [noun] (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title. | [noun] (translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy. PRAIRIE (9) [noun] An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America. PRAISED (10) [verb] To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. PRAISER (9) PRAISES (9) [noun] Commendation; favourable representation in words | [noun] Worship | [verb] To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. PRALINE (9) [noun] A confection made from almonds and other nuts and caramelized sugar. PRANCED (12) [verb] (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs. | [verb] To strut about in a showy manner. PRANCER (11) PRANCES (11) [noun] A prancing movement. | [verb] (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs. | [verb] To strut about in a showy manner. PRANGED (11) [verb] To crash an aeroplane. | [verb] To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle. | [verb] To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle). PRANKED (14) [verb] To perform a practical joke on; to trick. | [verb] To call someone's phone and promptly hang up | [verb] To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously. PRATERS (9) [noun] A person who prates; a chatterer. PRATING (10) [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. | [noun] Foolish chatter PRATTLE (9) [noun] Silly, childish talk; babble. | [verb] To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble. PRAWNED (13) PRAWNER (12) [noun] Someone who fishes for prawns. | [noun] A boat used for prawn fishing. PRAYERS (12) [noun] A practice of communicating with one's God. | [noun] The act of praying. | [noun] The specific words or methods used for praying. PRAYING (13) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PREACHY (17) [adjective] Tending toward excessive moralization. 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PRECEPT (13) [noun] A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct. | [noun] A written command, especially a demand for payment. | [noun] An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf. PRECESS (11) [verb] (of an axis of rotation) To have an angle that varies cyclically. | [verb] (of a rotating object) To wobble; to rotate about an axis that precesses. PRECIPE (13) PRECISE (11) [verb] (NNES or European Union documents) To make or render precise; to specify. | [adjective] Exact, accurate | [adjective] (of experimental results) consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value) PRECODE (12) PRECOOK (15) [verb] To partially or completely cook in advance PRECOOL (11) [verb] To cool in advance. PRECOUP (13) PRECURE (11) PRECUTS (11) [verb] To cut in advance. PREDATE (10) [noun] A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue. | [verb] To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".) | [verb] To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate. | [verb] To prey upon something. PREDAWN (13) [noun] The period immediately preceding dawn. PREDIAL (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to land or its products. | [adjective] Coming from or the occupation of land. | [adjective] Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land. | [verb] To dial in advance. PREDICT (12) [noun] A prediction. | [verb] To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power. | [verb] (of theories, laws, etc.) To imply. PREDIVE (13) PREDUSK (14) PREEDIT (10) PREEING (10) PREEMIE (11) [noun] A baby that has been born prematurely PREEMPT (13) [noun] A preemptive bid. | [verb] To appropriate something (before someone else does). | [verb] To displace something, or take precedence over something. PREENED (10) [verb] To pin; fasten. | [verb] (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers. | [verb] To show off, posture, or smarm. PREENER (9) PREFABS (14) [noun] A prefabricated building. | [noun] A prefabricated section of a building. | [noun] A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use. PREFACE (14) [noun] The beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book. | [noun] An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks. | [noun] The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass. PREFADE (13) PREFECT (14) [noun] An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc. | [noun] The head of a department in France. | [noun] The head of a prefecture in Japan. PREFERS (12) [verb] To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. | [verb] To advance, promote (someone or something). | [verb] To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). PREFILE (12) PREFIRE (12) PREFORM (14) [noun] An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form. | [noun] The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool. | [noun] A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones. PREGAME (12) [noun] A social gathering of several friends who get together to drink before going out to a party or a sports game. The goal of pre-gaming is to "get a buzz" before going out for the night. | [noun] A television show preceding a sports game wherein commentators discuss that game. | [verb] To consume alcohol prior to an event. PREHEAT (12) [verb] To heat something in preparation for further action, especially cooking PRELACY (14) [noun] The office of a prelate. | [noun] The prelature; prelates considered as a group. | [noun] A church government or organisation administered by prelates. PRELATE (9) [noun] A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop. | [verb] To act as a prelate. PRELECT (11) PRELIFE (12) PRELIMS (11) [noun] Something preliminary, such as a trial, report, race, etc. PRELUDE (10) [noun] An introductory or preliminary performance or event. | [noun] A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece. | [noun] A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program. PREMADE (12) [adjective] Made in advance | [verb] To make in advance PREMEAL (11) PREMEDS (12) [noun] An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine. | [noun] A premedication. PREMEET (11) PREMIER (11) [noun] (Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet. | [noun] (non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government. | [noun] The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship. PREMIES (11) PREMISE (11) [noun] A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. | [noun] Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. PREMISS (11) [noun] A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. | [noun] Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. PREMIUM (13) [noun] A prize or award. | [noun] Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else. | [noun] A bonus paid in addition to normal payments. PREMIXT (18) PREMOLD (12) PREMOLT (11) PREMUNE (11) PRENAME (11) PRENOON (9) PREPACK (17) [noun] A bankruptcy procedure in which a restructuring plan is agreed before the company declares itself insolvent. | [verb] To pack in advance. PREPAID (12) [adjective] Paid for in advance | [verb] To pay in advance, or beforehand PREPARE (11) [noun] Preparation | [verb] To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip. | [verb] To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook. PREPAYS (14) [verb] To pay in advance, or beforehand PREPILL (11) PREPLAN (11) [verb] To plan in advance PREPPED (14) [verb] To prepare. PREPPIE (13) [noun] A student of a prep school. PREPREG (12) [noun] Fiber material impregnated with its matrix material, usually a plastic, well before its use to form a manufactured part. PREPUCE (13) [noun] The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis. | [noun] The clitoral hood PREQUEL (18) [noun] In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel. PRERACE (11) PRERIOT (9) PREROCK (15) PRESAGE (10) [noun] A warning of a future event; an omen. | [noun] An intuition of a future event; a presentiment. | [verb] To predict or foretell something. PRESALE (9) [noun] The sale of something privately, before it is available to the public | [noun] The sale of a property before it is built PRESELL (9) [verb] To sell or obtain commitments to buy in advance of a formal offer to sell. PRESENT (9) [noun] The current moment or period of time. | [noun] The present tense. | [adjective] Relating to now, for the time being; current. | [noun] A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions. PRESETS (9) [noun] Something that is set in advance. | [verb] To set something in advance. PRESHOW (15) PRESIDE (10) [verb] To act as president or chairperson. | [verb] To exercise authority or control, oversit. | [verb] To be a featured solo performer. PRESIFT (12) PRESOAK (13) [noun] An initial soak. | [noun] A preparation used in such a soak. | [noun] A cycle of a washing machine during which this occurs. PRESOLD (10) [verb] To sell or obtain commitments to buy in advance of a formal offer to sell. PRESONG (10) PRESORT (9) PRESSED (10) [verb] To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon. | [verb] To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it. | [verb] To compress, squeeze. PRESSER (9) [noun] A person or device that presses or squeezes. | [noun] A member of a press-gang, who forces others into service. | [noun] A person or device that removes wrinkles, usually from clothing. | [noun] A press release. PRESSES (9) [noun] A device used to apply pressure to an item. | [noun] A printing machine. | [noun] (collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). PRESSOR (9) [noun] Vasopressor | [adjective] Vasopressor PRESTER (9) PRESTOS (9) PRESUME (11) [verb] With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission. | [verb] To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission. | [verb] To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose. PRETAPE (11) PRETEEN (9) [noun] A child between 10 and 12 years of age, at the onset of adolescence. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or designed for, or being children between the ages of approximately 10 and 12. PRETEND (10) [verb] To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception. | [verb] To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.). | [verb] To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to) PRETERM (11) [noun] A premature birth or baby. | [adjective] Of a premature birth or baby. PRETEST (9) [noun] A preliminary test, given in advance of instruction or evaluation. | [verb] To administer a pretest to. | [verb] To carry out a pretest. PRETEXT (16) [noun] A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense. | [verb] To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else. PRETORS (9) [noun] (history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time: | [noun] (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title. | [noun] (translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy. PRETRIM (11) PRETYPE (14) PRETZEL (18) [noun] A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot. | [noun] (by extension) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled. | [verb] To bend, twist, or contort. PREVAIL (12) [verb] To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others. | [verb] To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence. | [verb] To succeed in persuading or inducing. PREVENT (12) [verb] To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). | [verb] To take preventative measures. | [verb] To come before; to precede. PREVIEW (15) [noun] An experience of something in advance. | [noun] An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc. | [noun] Something seen in advance. PREVISE (12) [verb] To foresee. | [verb] To forewarn. PREVUED (13) PREVUES (12) PREWARM (14) PREWARN (12) [verb] To warn beforehand; to forewarn. PREWASH (15) [noun] A quick rinse given to objects before they are washed properly. | [verb] To rinse something before washing it properly. PREWORK (16) PREWRAP (14) PREXIES (16) [noun] A definitive stamp of the presidential series issued by the United States from 1938 to 1954. | [noun] A president, especially of a college or university. PREYERS (12) PREYING (13) [verb] To act as a predator. PRIAPIC (13) [adjective] Phallic. | [adjective] Related to or overly concerned with male sexual activity or exhibiting excessive male sexual activity. | [adjective] Excessively masculine; excessively concerned with masculinity. PRIAPUS (11) PRICERS (11) PRICIER (11) [adjective] Expensive, dear. PRICING (12) [verb] To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on. | [verb] To pay the price of; to make reparation for. | [verb] To set a price on; to value; to prize. PRICKED (16) [verb] To pierce or puncture slightly. | [verb] To form by piercing or puncturing. | [verb] To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark. PRICKER (15) PRICKET (15) [noun] A candle. | [noun] A spike for holding a single candle. | [noun] A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched. PRICKLE (15) [noun] A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn. | [noun] A tingling sensation of mild discomfort. | [noun] A kind of willow basket. PRICKLY (18) [noun] Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object. | [adjective] Covered with sharp points. | [adjective] Easily irritated. PRIDING (11) [verb] To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. PRIESTS (9) [noun] A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple | [noun] A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish | [noun] The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood PRIGGED (12) PRILLED (10) PRIMACY (16) [noun] The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc. | [noun] Excellence; supremacy. | [noun] The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church PRIMAGE (12) PRIMARY (14) [noun] A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party. | [noun] The first year of grade school. | [noun] A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible. PRIMATE (11) [noun] A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians. | [noun] A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey. | [noun] In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription. PRIMELY (14) PRIMERO (11) PRIMERS (11) [noun] A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations. | [noun] Similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer. | [noun] A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell. PRIMINE (11) PRIMING (12) [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [verb] To apply a coat of primer paint to. | [verb] To be renewed. PRIMMED (14) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. PRIMMER (13) [adjective] Prudish, straight-laced | [adjective] Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice PRIMPED (14) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. PRIMSIE (11) PRIMULA (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses. PRINCES (11) [noun] A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. | [noun] A female monarch. | [noun] Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. PRINCOX (18) PRINKED (14) [verb] To give a wink; to wink. | [verb] To look, gaze. | [verb] To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up. PRINKER (13) PRINTED (10) [verb] To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off. | [verb] To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image. | [verb] To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive. PRINTER (9) [noun] One who makes prints. | [noun] The operator of a printing press, or the owner of a printing business. | [noun] A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects. PRIORLY (12) PRISERE (9) PRISING (10) [verb] To force (open) with a lever; to pry. PRISONS (9) [noun] A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government. | [noun] Confinement in prison. | [noun] Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home. PRISSED (10) PRISSES (9) PRITHEE (12) [interjection] Short for "I pray thee", i.e. Please. PRIVACY (17) [noun] The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. | [noun] Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one private life. | [noun] Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization. PRIVATE (12) [noun] A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. | [noun] A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care. | [noun] (in the plural) The genitals. PRIVETS (12) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum. PRIVIER (12) PRIVIES (12) [noun] An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse). | [noun] A lavatory: a room with a toilet. | [noun] A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation. PRIVILY (15) PRIVITY (15) [noun] A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures. | [noun] Privacy, secrecy. | [noun] A private matter, a secret. PRIZERS (18) PRIZING (19) [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [verb] To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate. | [verb] To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry. PROBAND (12) [noun] An individual who presents with a genetic disorder or other specific characteristic, when this leads to the investigation of the individual's family PROBANG (12) [noun] A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the oesophagus, etc. PROBATE (11) [noun] The legal process of verifying the legality of a will. | [noun] A copy of a legally recognised and qualified will. | [noun] Proof PROBERS (11) PROBING (12) [verb] To explore, investigate, or question | [verb] To insert a probe into. | [noun] The action of investigating or exploring. PROBITS (11) [noun] A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses PROBITY (14) [noun] Integrity, especially of the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency. PROBLEM (13) [noun] A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with. | [noun] A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise. | [noun] A puzzling circumstance. PROCARP (13) PROCEED (12) [verb] To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on | [verb] To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another. | [verb] To come from; to have as its source or origin. PROCESS (11) [noun] A series of events which produce a result (the product). | [noun] A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries. | [noun] A path of succession of states through which a system passes. | [verb] To walk in a procession PROCTOR (11) [noun] A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator. | [noun] An official at any of several older universities. | [noun] A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts. PROCURE (11) [verb] To acquire or obtain. | [verb] To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else. | [verb] To induce or persuade someone to do something. PRODDED (12) [verb] To poke, to push, to touch. | [verb] To encourage, to prompt. | [verb] To prick with a goad. PRODDER (11) [noun] Agent noun of prod; one who prods. PRODIGY (14) [noun] An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent. | [noun] An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak. | [noun] An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. PRODUCE (12) [verb] To yield, make or manufacture; to generate. | [verb] To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection. | [verb] To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public. | [noun] That which is produced. PRODUCT (12) [noun] A commodity offered for sale. | [noun] Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. | [noun] Anything that is produced; a result. PROETTE (9) PROFANE (12) [noun] A person or thing that is profane. | [noun] A person not a Mason. | [verb] To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate PROFESS (12) [verb] To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.) | [verb] To declare oneself (to be something). | [verb] To declare; to assert, affirm. PROFFER (15) [noun] An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender. | [noun] An attempt, an essay. | [verb] To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of. PROFILE (12) [noun] The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object. | [noun] The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view. | [noun] A summary or collection of information, especially about a person PROFITS (12) [noun] Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. | [noun] Benefit, positive result obtained. | [noun] In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game). PROFUSE (12) [verb] To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. | [adjective] In great quantity or abundance; liberal or generous to the point of excess. PROGENY (13) [noun] Offspring or descendants considered as a group. | [noun] Descent, lineage, ancestry. | [noun] A result of a creative effort. PROGGED (12) PROGGER (11) PROGRAM (12) [noun] A set of structured activities. | [noun] A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity. | [noun] A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television. PROJECT (18) [noun] A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An urban low-income housing building. | [noun] An idle scheme; an impracticable design. PROJETS (16) PROLANS (9) PROLATE (9) [verb] To utter; to pronounce. | [adjective] Elongated at the poles. PROLEGS (10) [noun] An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg. PROLINE (9) [noun] A nonessential amino acid C5H9NO2 found in most animal proteins, especially collagen; its cyclic structure leads to kinks in the peptide chain of proteins. PROLOGS (10) PROLONG (10) [verb] To extend in space or length. | [verb] To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of | [verb] To put off to a distant time; to postpone. PROMINE (11) PROMISE (11) [noun] An oath or affirmation; a vow | [noun] A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use | [noun] Reason to expect improvement or success; potential PROMOTE (11) [verb] To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank. | [verb] To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity. | [verb] To encourage, urge or incite. PROMPTS (13) [noun] A reminder or cue. | [noun] A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. | [noun] A sequence of characters that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input. PRONATE (9) [verb] To turn or rotate one’s hand and forearm so that the palm faces down if the forearm is horizontal, back if the arm is pointing down, or forward if the forearm is pointing up; to twist the right forearm counterclockwise or the left forearm clockwise. | [verb] To twist the foot so that if walking the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot. | [verb] To become pronated. PRONELY (12) PRONGED (11) [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) prongs PRONOTA (9) PRONOUN (9) [noun] (grammar) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other. PROOFED (13) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROOFER (12) PROPANE (11) [noun] An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C3H8, a constituent of natural gas. PROPELS (11) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or physical action, to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive forward. | [verb] To provide an impetus for non-physical change, to make to arrive to a certain situation or result. PROPEND (12) PROPENE (11) [noun] (official IUPAC name) The organic chemical compound propylene. An alkene which is a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C3H6. PROPERS (11) [noun] Something set apart for a special use. | [noun] Proper treatment, respect PROPHET (14) [noun] Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. | [noun] Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer. PROPINE (11) PROPJET (18) PROPMAN (13) PROPMEN (13) PROPONE (11) PROPOSE (11) [noun] An objective or aim. | [verb] To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. | [verb] (sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage. PROPPED (14) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something. | [verb] To play rugby in the prop position | [verb] (usually with "up" - see prop up) To position the feet of (a person) while sitting, lying down, or reclining so that the knees are elevated at a higher level. PROPYLA (14) [noun] The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice. PROPYLS (14) PRORATE (9) [verb] To divide proportionately, especially by day; to divide pro rata. PROSAIC (11) [adjective] Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. | [adjective] (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry. | [adjective] (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring. PROSECT (11) PROSERS (9) PROSIER (9) [adjective] Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative. | [adjective] Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious. PROSILY (12) PROSING (10) [noun] Tedious talk or writing. | [adjective] Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. PROSODY (13) [noun] The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech. | [noun] The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse. PROSOMA (11) [noun] The front segment of a body which is divided into two or more segments, especially the cephalothorax of an arachnid or crustacean. PROSPER (11) [verb] To favor; to render successful. | [verb] To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. | [verb] To grow; to increase. PROSSES (9) PROSSIE (9) PROSTIE (9) PROTEAN (9) [adjective] Of or relating to Proteus | [adjective] Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms. PROTEAS (9) [noun] Any of many South African flowering plants, of the genus Protea, having colourful cone-shaped flower heads. PROTECT (11) [verb] To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to. | [verb] (travel) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight. PROTEGE (10) [noun] A person guided and protected by a more prominent person. PROTEID (10) PROTEIN (9) [noun] Any of numerous large, complex naturally-produced molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids, in which the amino acid groups are held together by peptide bonds. | [noun] (nutrition) One of three major classes of food or source of food energy (4 kcal/gram) abundant in animal-derived foods (i.e. meat) and some vegetables, such as legumes. | [noun] (nutrition) A food rich in protein, often a meat or meat substitute. PROTEND (10) PROTEST (9) [noun] A formal objection, especially one by a group. | [noun] A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration. | [noun] The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill. PROTEUS (9) [noun] Any of many gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Proteus, several of which are responsible for human infections. PROTIST (9) [noun] Any of the eukaryotic unicellular organisms including protozoans, slime molds and some algae; historically grouped into the kingdom Protoctista. PROTIUM (11) [noun] An atom of this isotope. PROTONS (9) [noun] A positively charged subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and determining the atomic number of an element, composed of two up quarks and a down quark. PROTYLE (12) PROTYLS (12) PROUDER (10) [adjective] Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. | [adjective] Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. | [adjective] Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. PROUDLY (13) [adverb] In a proud manner. PROVERB (14) [noun] A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations. | [noun] A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. | [noun] A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. PROVERS (12) PROVIDE (13) [verb] To make a living; earn money for necessities. | [verb] To act to prepare for something. | [verb] To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. PROVING (13) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [noun] Experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested. PROVISO (12) [noun] A conditional provision to an agreement. PROVOKE (16) [verb] To cause someone to become annoyed or angry. | [verb] To bring about a reaction. | [verb] To appeal. PROVOST (12) [noun] One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly: | [noun] A senior deputy, a superintendent, particularly: | [noun] A provost cell: a military cell or prison. PROWESS (12) [noun] Skillfulness and manual ability; adroitness or dexterity. | [noun] Distinguished bravery or courage, especially in battle; heroism. | [noun] An act of prowess. PROWEST (12) PROWLED (13) [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. | [verb] To collect by plunder. PROWLER (12) [noun] One who roves about for prey; one who prowls. PROXIES (16) [noun] An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person. | [noun] The authority to act for another, especially when written. | [noun] The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. PROXIMO (18) [adverb] Of next month. PRUDENT (10) [adjective] Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; careful, discreet, sensible; — opposed to rash; directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence | [adjective] Practically wise, judicious, shrewd | [adjective] Frugal; economical; not extravagant; PRUDERY (13) PRUDISH (13) [adjective] Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters PRUNERS (9) PRUNING (10) [verb] To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. | [verb] To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). PRURIGO (10) [noun] A papular disease of the skin, with intense itching as the main symptom. PRUSSIC (11) PRUTOTH (12) PRYTHEE (15) PSALMED (12) PSALMIC (13) PSALTER (9) [noun] The Book of Psalms. Often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed. | [noun] Specifically for Anglicans, the Book of Common Prayer which contains the Book of Psalms. For Catholics, the Breviary containing the Psalms arranged for each day of the week. | [noun] In the Roman Catholic Church, a rosary consisting of one hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the Psalms. PSALTRY (12) PSAMMON (13) PSCHENT (14) PSEUDOS (10) [noun] An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual. | [noun] A poseur; one who is fake. | [noun] (travel industry) pseudo-city code PSHAWED (16) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. PSOATIC (11) PSOCIDS (12) [noun] Any insect of the order Psocoptera. PSYCHED (18) [verb] To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up). | [verb] To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out). | [verb] To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis. PSYCHES (17) [noun] The human soul, mind, or spirit. | [noun] (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual. | [noun] A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia. PSYCHIC (19) [noun] A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence. | [noun] A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium. | [noun] (gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic). PSYCHOS (17) [noun] A person who is psychotic or otherwise insane. | [noun] A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner. PSYLLAS (12) PSYLLID (13) [noun] Any of the host-specific plant-feeding insects of the family Psyllidae, which feed on plant juices. PSYWARS (15) PTERINS (9) PTERYLA (12) PTISANS (9) PTOMAIN (11) PTYALIN (12) [noun] A form of amylase found in saliva that breaks down starch into maltose and dextrin. PUBERAL (11) PUBERTY (14) [noun] A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total. | [noun] The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction. | [noun] The period when a plant begins to flower. PUBLICS (13) [noun] The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group. | [noun] A public house; an inn. PUBLISH (14) [verb] To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale. | [verb] To announce to the public. | [verb] To issue the work of (an author). PUCCOON (13) [noun] Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens. | [noun] The red pigment (dye) obtained from these plants. PUCKERS (15) [noun] A fold or wrinkle. | [noun] A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. | [verb] To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. PUCKERY (18) PUCKISH (18) [adjective] Mischievous; excessively playful. PUDDING (12) [noun] Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter. | [noun] A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming. | [noun] A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent. PUDDLED (12) [verb] To form a puddle. | [verb] To play or splash in a puddle. | [verb] Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients. PUDDLER (11) PUDDLES (11) [noun] A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. | [noun] Stagnant or polluted water. | [noun] A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight. PUDENCY (15) [noun] Modesty. PUDENDA (11) [noun] (usually in the plural) An external genital organ in a human; especially a woman’s vulva. | [noun] (in the plural) A person’s genital organ, mons pubis, anus, and buttocks collectively. | [noun] A shameful part of something. PUDGIER (11) [adjective] Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby. PUDGILY (14) PUEBLOS (11) [noun] A community in Spain or Spanish America, especially one of Pueblo Indians living in a stone or adobe multi-storey building. PUERILE (9) [adjective] Childish; trifling; silly. | [adjective] Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile. PUFFERS (15) [noun] Someone or something that puffs. | [noun] Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger. | [noun] A manually-operated inhaler. PUFFERY (18) [noun] An act of puffing. | [noun] Excessive public praise. PUFFIER (15) [adjective] Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like. | [adjective] Coming or exhaling in puffs. | [adjective] Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner. PUFFILY (18) PUFFING (16) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. PUFFINS (15) [noun] The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. | [noun] The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. | [noun] Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses. PUGAREE (10) PUGGIER (11) PUGGING (12) [verb] To mix and stir when wet. | [verb] To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. | [noun] Mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound. PUGGISH (14) PUGGREE (11) PUGMARK (16) PUGREES (10) PUISNES (9) PULINGS (10) PULLERS (9) PULLETS (9) [noun] A young hen, especially one less than a year old. | [noun] A spineless person; a coward. | [noun] A young girl. PULLEYS (12) [noun] One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance). | [verb] To raise or lift by means of a pulley. PULLING (10) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | [verb] To attract or net; to pull in. | [noun] The act by which something is pulled. PULLMAN (11) PULLOUT (9) [noun] The practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself. | [noun] A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment. | [noun] A withdrawal, especially of armed forces. PULLUPS (11) [noun] An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. | [noun] A pullup resistor. PULPERS (11) PULPIER (11) [adjective] Having the characteristics of pulp | [adjective] Having the characteristics of pulp fiction; thus, having a garish focus on sex and violence PULPILY (14) PULPING (12) [verb] To make or be made into pulp. | [verb] To beat to a pulp. | [verb] To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. PULPITS (11) [noun] A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon. | [noun] Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit. | [noun] A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker. PULPOUS (11) PULQUES (18) PULSANT (9) PULSARS (9) [noun] A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically PULSATE (9) [verb] To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat. | [verb] To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music. | [verb] To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity. PULSERS (9) PULSING (10) [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [verb] To flow, particularly of blood. | [verb] To emit in discrete quantities. PULSION (9) PULVINI (12) [noun] A joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet. PUMELOS (11) PUMICED (14) [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUMICER (13) PUMICES (13) [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUMMELO (13) [noun] The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh. | [noun] The tree which produces this fruit. | [noun] The grapefruit. PUMMELS (13) [noun] The upper front brow of a saddle. | [noun] A rounded knob or handle. | [noun] The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball. PUMPERS (13) [noun] One who pumps something. | [noun] A steroid or other drug taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size. PUMPING (14) [verb] To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). | [verb] (often followed by up) To fill with air. | [verb] To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. PUMPKIN (17) [noun] A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon. | [noun] The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant. | [noun] The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant. PUNCHED (15) [verb] To strike with one's fist. | [verb] (of cattle) To herd. | [verb] To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means. PUNCHER (14) PUNCHES (14) [noun] A hit or strike with one's fist. | [noun] Power, strength, energy. | [noun] Impact. PUNDITS (10) [noun] An expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. | [noun] A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. | [noun] A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders. PUNGENT (10) [adjective] Having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances. | [adjective] Having a strong taste that stings the tongue, said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste. | [adjective] Stinging; acerbic. PUNGLED (11) PUNGLES (10) PUNIEST (9) [adjective] Of inferior size, strength or significance; small, weak, ineffective. PUNKAHS (16) [noun] A fan, especially made of leaf or cloth and hung from the ceiling; in the past often operated by a servant. PUNKERS (13) [noun] A person used for sex, particularly: | [noun] A worthless person, particularly: | [noun] Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums. PUNKEST (13) PUNKEYS (16) PUNKIER (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood) - soft or rotted. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the punk subculture. PUNKIES (13) PUNKINS (13) PUNKISH (16) PUNNERS (9) PUNNETS (9) [noun] A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries. PUNNIER (9) [adjective] (of a pun) Funny. | [adjective] Involving the use of a pun. | [adjective] (of a person) Who makes puns. PUNNING (10) [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. | [noun] The action of the verb to pun. PUNSTER (9) [noun] A person who makes puns. PUNTERS (9) [noun] One who bets (punts) against the bank. | [noun] One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon). | [noun] One who punts a football. PUNTIES (9) [noun] A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed called the "pontil mark". PUNTING (10) [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [verb] To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance. | [verb] To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc). PUPARIA (11) [noun] An enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation. PUPATED (12) [verb] To become a pupa. PUPATES (11) [verb] To become a pupa. PUPFISH (17) [noun] Any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae. PUPILAR (11) PUPPETS (13) [noun] Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove. | [noun] A person, country, etc, controlled by another. | [noun] A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll. PUPPIES (13) [noun] A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12-18 months) | [noun] A young rat. | [noun] A young seal. PUPPING (14) [verb] To give birth to pups. PURANAS (9) PURANIC (11) PURDAHS (13) [noun] A curtain, especially as used to conceal and divide women from men and strangers in some Hindu or Muslim traditions. | [noun] A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains. | [noun] The state or system of social gender seclusion in some Muslim or Hindu communities. PURFLED (13) [verb] To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. | [verb] To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings. PURFLES (12) [noun] An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. | [noun] An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings. PURGERS (10) PURGING (11) [noun] The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative. | [noun] The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt. | [verb] To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. PURINES (9) [noun] Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids. PURISMS (11) PURISTS (9) [noun] An advocate of purism. PURITAN (9) [noun] (often disapproving) a puritanical person | [adjective] (often disapproving) acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex PURLIEU (9) [noun] The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc. | [noun] The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood. PURLINE (9) PURLING (10) [verb] To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge | [verb] An inverted stitch producing ribbing etc | [verb] To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong. PURLINS (9) [noun] A longitudinal structural member bridging two or more rafters of a roof. PURLOIN (9) [verb] To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal. | [verb] To commit theft; to thieve. PURPLED (12) [verb] To turn purple in colour. | [verb] To dye purple. | [verb] To clothe in purple. PURPLER (11) [adjective] Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. | [adjective] Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state, purple city. | [adjective] (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals. PURPLES (11) [noun] A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. | [noun] (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. | [noun] Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. PURPORT (11) [noun] Import, intention or purpose | [noun] Disguise; covering | [verb] To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely). PURPOSE (11) [noun] An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal. | [noun] A result that is desired; an intention. | [noun] The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination. | [verb] To have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan. PURPURA (11) [noun] The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding. PURPURE (11) [noun] A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise. | [adjective] In blazon, of the colour purple. PURRING (10) [verb] Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented. | [verb] To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner. | [verb] To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure. PURSERS (9) [noun] The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft. PURSIER (9) PURSILY (12) PURSING (10) [verb] To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. | [verb] To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. | [verb] To put into a purse. PURSUED (10) [verb] To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | [verb] To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | [verb] To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). PURSUER (9) [noun] One who pursues. | [noun] The party who initiates a lawsuit; a plaintiff. PURSUES (9) [verb] To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | [verb] To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | [verb] To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). PURSUIT (9) [noun] The act of pursuing. | [noun] A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly. | [noun] A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents. PURVEYS (15) [verb] To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. | [verb] To furnish or provide. | [verb] To procure; to get. PURVIEW (15) [noun] The enacting part of a statute. | [noun] The scope of a statute. | [noun] Scope or range of interest or control. PUSHERS (12) [noun] Someone or something that pushes. | [noun] A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule. | [noun] A girl or woman. PUSHFUL (15) [adjective] Energetic; pushy. PUSHIER (12) [adjective] Aggressively ambitious; overly assertive, bold or determined. PUSHILY (15) PUSHING (13) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action. | [verb] To press or urge forward; to drive. PUSHPIN (14) [noun] A thumbtack. | [noun] An old children's game where pins are placed on a table and each player tries to push his pin so as to cross the other's. PUSHROD (13) [noun] A rod in a piston engine that actuates rocker arms above the cylinder head. | [noun] A rod in an internal gear hub that actuates the shifting mechanism. PUSHUPS (14) [noun] An exercise done to improve upper body strength, performed by resting on one's toes and hands and pushing one's weight off the floor. | [noun] A push-up bra. PUSLEYS (12) PUSLIKE (13) PUSSIER (9) PUSSIES (9) [noun] A cat. | [noun] An affectionate term for a woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness. | [noun] The female genitalia; the vulva and/or vagina. PUSSLEY (12) PUSTULE (9) [noun] A small accumulation of pus in the epidermis or dermis. | [noun] A pimple filled with pus. | [noun] Anything like a pustule, on plants or animals; a small blister. PUTAMEN (11) [noun] A round structure located at the base of the forebrain, regulating movement and learning. | [noun] A hard, shell-like covering. | [noun] The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit; endocarp. PUTLOGS (10) [noun] One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. PUTOFFS (15) PUTOUTS (9) PUTREFY (15) [verb] To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance. | [verb] To reach an advanced stage of decomposition. | [verb] To become gangrenous. PUTTEES (9) [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. | [noun] (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting. PUTTERS (9) [verb] To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. | [noun] One who puts or places. | [noun] A shot-putter. PUTTIED (10) [verb] To fix or fill using putty. PUTTIER (9) PUTTIES (9) [noun] A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc. | [noun] A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass. | [noun] Any of a range of similar substances. PUTTING (10) [verb] To place something somewhere. | [verb] To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. | [verb] To exercise a put option. | [verb] To place something somewhere. PUTZING (19) [verb] Waste time. | [verb] (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood. PUZZLED (28) [verb] To perplex (someone). | [verb] To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. | [verb] To make intricate; to entangle. PUZZLER (27) [noun] A puzzling situation or problem; an enigma. | [noun] A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve. | [noun] One who solves puzzles as a hobby. PUZZLES (27) [noun] Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. | [noun] A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. | [noun] A crossword puzzle. PYAEMIA (14) [noun] A type of septicemia caused usually by the presence of Staphylococcus bacteria in the bloodstream; characterised by metastatic abscesses and other symptoms associated with septicemia. PYAEMIC (16) PYEMIAS (14) PYGIDIA (14) [noun] The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacea, and certain insects. PYGMEAN (15) [adjective] Like a pygmy; very small. PYGMIES (15) [noun] (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature. | [noun] A member of a race of dwarfs. | [noun] Any dwarfish person or thing. PYGMOID (16) PYJAMAS (21) [noun] Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. | [noun] Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India. PYKNICS (18) PYLORIC (14) [adjective] Of or relating to the pylorus. PYLORUS (12) [noun] The opening in a vertebrate, including humans, at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum. | [noun] A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ. PYRALID (13) [noun] A moth of the family Pyralidae. | [adjective] Pertaining to the Pyralidae family of moths. PYRAMID (15) [noun] An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as bases for temples in Mesoamerica. | [noun] A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base. | [noun] A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base. PYRENES (12) PYRETIC (14) [noun] A remedy for fever. | [adjective] Caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever. PYREXIA (19) [noun] Fever. | [noun] Trench fever. PYREXIC (21) PYRIDIC (15) PYRITES (12) [noun] The common mineral iron disulfide (FeS2), of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system. | [noun] (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metallic-looking sulphide, such as the above, which is the most common. | [noun] (usually as a plural: pyrites) Any metal dichalcogenide that is isostructural to the common mineral. PYRITIC (14) PYROGEN (13) [noun] Any substance that produces fever, or a rise in body temperature PYROLAS (12) PYRONES (12) PYROPES (14) [noun] A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone. PYROSIS (12) [noun] A burning sensation in the chest due to reflux of stomach contents in the esophagus. PYRRHIC (17) [adjective] Of or relating to Pyrrhus (319/318–272 BC), Greek general and statesman. | [adjective] Achieved at too great a cost or detriment to have been worthwhile (as a victory, accomplishment, etc). | [noun] An Ancient Greek war dance. PYRROLE (12) [noun] Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H5N. PYRROLS (12) PYTHONS (15) [noun] A type of large constricting snake. | [noun] Penis | [noun] Large and well-developed muscles in the upper arm. PYURIAS (12) PYXIDES (20) [noun] A small box | [noun] A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds; a pyxidium | [noun] A nautical compass PYXIDIA (20) [noun] A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.