Word origins

• pignorationThe act of pledging or pawning.
• pignus amorisA gift or keepsake that is symbolic of a love relationship; a love token.
• pigritudeSlothfulness, laziness.
• pilentumA ceremonial chariot or carriage, used by Roman noblewomen.
• pileousOf, pertaining to, or consisting of hair.
• pileumThe top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape.
• piliferousContaining or producing hair.
• piliformResembling hair.
• piligerouspiliferous (covered in hair)
• pili tortiA condition of the skin appendage, characterized by short and brittle hairs that appear flattened and twisted when viewed through a microscope.
• Pillars of HerculesThe two promontories at the Strait of Gibraltar, and thus the western limit of the Mediterranean world.
• pilo-hair
• pilocyteAny cell with prominent external hair-like structures.
• piluleA little pill.
• pilulousResembling a pill or pilule.
• pilumA Roman military javelin.
• pinacolinA colourless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacol.
• pinacothecaAn art gallery, especially one exhibiting pictures.
• pinaneThe saturated bicyclic hydrocarbon 2,6,6-trimethyl-, (1a,2b,5a)-bicyclo[3.1.1]heptane made by the hydrogenation of pinene
• pinaxA tablet or register.
• PindusA mountain range in northern Greece, often called the "spine of Greece"
• pinguescencethe process of growing obese
• pinguescentgrowing obese, fattening
• pinguidRelating to fat.
• pinguidinousContaining fat; fatty.
• pinguitudefatness; obesity
• pinic acidA dicarboxylic acid and recognized as an oxidation product of α-pinene, a common terpene found in pine resin.
• pinniformShaped like a fin or feather.
• pinnothereA small crab of the genus Pinnotheres, which live symbiotically in the shells of certain molluscs.
• pinnulaA pinnule or subleaflet.
• pinnuleAny of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.
• pinophyteAny gymnosperm (of the division Pinophyta)
• pious fraudAn act of innocent deceit, technically using the methods of a fraudster but for an honest, honorable purpose.
• piroplasmaBabesia, a genus of hematozoa that invades the red blood cells of humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and sheep
• pisalisSynonym of calefactory: the room holding an abbey, convent, or monastery's communal fire.
• piscaryfishery
• piscationfishing; fishery
• piscatologyThe study of fishing.
• piscatorA fisherman; an angler.
• piscatorialOf or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
• piscatoryOf or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
• piscatrixA female fishmonger in ancient times.
• pisci-Related to fish.
• pisciformHaving the shape of a fish.
• Piscis AustralisThe constellation Piscis Austrinus.
• Piscis AustrinusAn autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a fish. It contains the star Fomalhaut.
• piscosefishy.
• pisculentAbundant with fish.
• pisiformResembling a pea or peas in size and shape
• pisoidA concretionary grain, typically of calcium carbonate, between a microid and a macroid in size.
• pisoliteA sedimentary rock formed from pisoids
• pisolithA pisoid.
• pissasphaltA soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
• pisticHaving faith; trusting
• pistillumA pistil.
• pituitaPhlegm; mucus.
• pituitousConsisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus.
• placabilityThe quality of being placable or appeasable.
• placableAble to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.
• placationA process or act of placating; appeasement or an expression of appeasement.
• placenta cakeA dessert cake originating in ancient Greece, consisting essentially of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey.
• placentiouspleasing or pleasant
• placetA vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
• placitA decree or dictum.
• plagiaryThe crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
• plagiumabduction, especially of a child
• plagoseFond of flogging.
• planetalityMembership of a particular planet or moon, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
• planeticOf or relating to planets; planetary.
• planetuleA little planet.
• plangentHaving a loud, mournful sound.
• plani-flat, level, plane
• planishTo repeatedly hammer (a sheet of metal) so as to shape and smooth it or create a decorative indented finish.
• plantarisA muscle running at the posterior compartment of the calf from the knee to over the hump of the heel.
• planto-Plantar; related to the foot.
• planulaIn 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.
• plasmationThe act of forming or moulding.
• plasmatorOne who forms or creates; creator.
• platanA planetree.
• platitudinalCharacterized by banality or triteness.
• platitudinarianOne who uses many platitudes in speaking or writing.
• platitudinizeTo utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.
• platitudinousCharacterised by clichés or platitudes.
• platonicalPertaining to Plato or his philosophy; Platonic.
• plauditA mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
• plausiveLaudable, praisable.
• plaustralOf or relating to a wagon.
• PlautineOf or pertaining to, or in the style of, Plautus (a Roman comic playwright), his works, or his authorship.
• PlautinianOf or pertaining to the unknown Roman playwright Plautius, known only for being confused with the playwright Plautus; especially to contrast with Plautus himself.
• -pleA tuple containing the specified number of terms.
• plebicolistSomeone who flatters, or curries favor with the general public; a demagogue.
• plebificationMaking plebeian; vulgarizing.
• plebiscitumA law enacted by the plebs, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the senate's intervention.
• plenalfull; complete
• pleneWith matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
• pleniloquenceExcessive or overly full speech.
• plenilunarOf, pertaining to, or resembling the full moon.
• pleniluneThe full moon.
• plenipotentHaving full power.
• plenipotentialPertaining to a plenipotentiary; having full authority.