pickpocket, n. cutpurse, chevalier d'industrie (French).
picture, v. delineate, sketch, draw, represent, depict.
picture, n. drawing, painting, engraving, half- tone, photograph, print, miniature, daguerreotype, chromo, icon, chromotype, mezzotint, pastel, lithograph, lithotint, cartoon, sketch, etching, chromolithograph, pasticcio, tableau, portrait, illustration, cyclorama, silhouette, carte-de-visite, minette, caricature, vignette, draught, aquarelle, thermotype, tintype, ambrotype, cabinet, heliograph, chrysotype, photogravure, oleograph, cut, negative, study, likeness, scene, landscape, view, stereogram, stereograph, panorama, aristotype, heliotype, diorama, diaphanotype, decalcomania, mosaic, photoengraving, inconograph.
piddle, v. trifle.
piddling, a. trifling, inconsiderable, insignificant, piffling, inconsequential.
piebald, a. spotted, dappled, pied, pintado, pinto, party-colored.
piece, n. scrap, swatch, clout, chunk, slice, clipping, chip, hunk, hunch, fragment, fillet, shard; essay, article, composition; étude (Mus.).
piece, v. patch, repair; augment.
pied, a. mottled, spotted, piebald, dappled, party-colored.
pieplant, n. rhubarb.
pier, n. wharf, dock, jetty, buttress.
pierce, v. transfix, stab, impale, gore; penetrate, bore, perforate, drill.
pierced, a. perforated, penetrated.
piercer, n. stiletto, eyeleteer, gimlet, awl, bodkin.
piercing, a. penetrating, keen, sharp, thrilling, poignant.
piercing, n. penetration, perforation, impalement, transfixion, boring.
piety, n. sanctity, godliness, holiness.
piffle, n. trifling.--v. trifle, piddle.
piffling, a. trifling.
pig, n. shoat, far; gilt (young female); whinock; hog, swine. Associated words: porcine, farrow, litter, barrow, boar, sow, pork.
pigeon-house, n. dove-cote, columbary.
piggery, n. pig pen, sty, pigsty.
pigheaded, a. stubborn, perverse.
pig pen, n. sty, pigsty, piggery.
pigtail, n. queue.
pile, n. heap, stack, accumulation.
pile, v. heap, stack, accumulate.
piles, n. hemorrhoids.
pilfer, v. filch, purloin.
pilfering, n. filching, theft, pilfery.
pilgrim, n. wayfarer, traveler, sojourner, crusader.
pilgrimage, n. journey, expedition, sojourn, crusade.
pilgrim's staff. bourdon.
pillage, n. devastation, plundering, rapine, spoliation; spoil, plunder, booty, loot.
pillage, v. sack, plunder, despoil, devastate, foray.
pillar, n. column, pier, shaft, post, obelisk, monolith; supporter, maintainer.
pilot, n. steersman, helmsman; director, guide, conductor.
pilot, v. guide, steer, direct.
pimp, n. procurer, bawd, pander.--v. pander, bawd.
pimple, n. eruption, papule, pustule.
pin, n. peg, bolt, skewer, spilikin, spile, plug, linchpin.
pinafore, n. apron, tier.
pinch, n. twinge, tweak, twitch; exigency, strait.
pinch, v. squeeze, compress, twinge, tweak, gripe, nip; cramp, straiten, oppress; skrimp.
pinch, v. (Slang) arrest.
pinchbeck, a. sham, spurious, brummagem.
pinchers, n. pl. pincers, tweezers, pliers, nippers, forceps.
pinching, a. griping, compressing, nipping, skrimping.
pine, v. droop, languish, waste; yearn, long--n. deal.
pining, a. languishing, fading, drooping.
pink, v. scallop.
pinnacle, n. peak, summit, top, apex, zenith; finial.
pious, a. religious, devout, saintly, righteous, reverent. Antonym: impious.
pip, n. seed; roup.
pipe, n. tube, conduit, aqueduct.
pipe, n. tobacco pipe, clay pipe; nargile, nargileh; hubble-bubble; hookah; chibouque; dudeen.
piped, a. tubular.
pipe of peace. calumet.
pipe-shaped, a. tubular.
piping, a. peaceful, favorable; shrill, acute; sizzling, boiling, hissing.
piquancy, n. pungency, sharpness, spiciness; raciness, liveliness.
piquant, a. pungent, spicy; racy, lively.
pique, n. displeasure, resentment, vexation, umbrage.
piracy, n. freebooting, sea-robbery.
pirate, n. sea-robber, buccaneer, picaroon, corsair, freebooter, viking.
pirate's flag. Jolly Roger.
piratical, a. predatory.
pismire, n. emmet.
piss, n. urine.--v. urinate.
pit, n. hollow, hole, excavation, cavity; abyss; parquet; quarry; endocarp, stone, putamen.
pitapat, adv. in a flutter, flutteringly.
pitch, n. slope, declivity, slant.
pitch, n. bitumen, asphaltum.
pitch, v. cast, hurl, toss, throw, fling, heave, chuck; plunge; decline, slope, slant.
pitcher, n. jug, ewer, jar, toby, aiguière.
pitcher-shaped, a. urceolate.
pitch into. (Slang) attack, assault, assail.
piteous, a. compassionate, merciful; mournful, plaintive, doleful.
pith, n. marrow; gist, heart, essence, substance.
pithy, a. sententious, laconic.
pitiable, a. sad, piteous, lamentable, deplorable.
pitiful, a. tender-hearted, compassionate, merciful, lenient, ruthful, clement; lamentable, piteous, sad, sorrowful; despicable, contemptible, abject, mean.
pitiless, a. See unmerciful.
pittance, n. dole.
pity, n. compassion, mercy, ruth, commiseration, condolence, sympathy.
pity, v. have pity for, condole with, commiserate.
pitying, a. commiserative, sympathetic, tender, merciful.
pivot pin. pintle.
placable, a. appeasable, pacifiable.
placard, n. broadside, poster, bill, affiché.
place, a. position, site, situation, locality; rendezvous, tryst; duty, function, post, work, office; stead, lieu.
place, v. deposit, locate, dispose, put, set, station, establish, attribute, impute, ascribe, assign; identify.
place between. interpose.
plague, n. pestilence.
plague, v. hector, tantalize, tease, badger, pester, twit, nag, torment, harass, harry.
plaguy, a. (Colloq.) troublesome, vexatious, annoying.
plaid, a. checkered, crossbarred.
plaid cloth of Scotland. tartan.
plain, n. prairie, field, savanna, pampas, steppe, llano, champaign, campagna, heath, moor, camass, downs, tundra, veldt, peneplain.
plain, a. evident, manifest, explicit, obvious, unmistakable, distinct, apparent, palpable, patent; unembellished, simple, austere, severe, ungarnished, unadorned, untrimmed; homely, uncomely; flat, level, even, smooth, plane; unaffected, simple, artless, outspoken, undesigning, ingenuous, unreserved, direct; frugal, homely; unvaried, unfigured; mere, absolute, unmistakable. Antonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, indistinct, indecipherable, elaborate, luxurious, cryptic, abstruse, ornate, enigmatic, vague, inexplicable, obscure, complex, intricate, embellished.
plain, adv. plainly, distinctly, bluntly, candidly, explicitly.
plain-dealing, n. honesty.
plain song. Gregorian chant, canto fermo.
plain-spoken, a. frank, candid, unreserved, outspoken.
plaint, n. complaint, lamentation.
plaintiff, n. complainant.
plaintive, a. piteous, melancholy, sad, sorrowful, doleful.
plait, n. braid, plat, gather, ruffle, gauffering, plication, fluting, kilting.
plaited, a. pleated, kilted.
plan, n. diagram, draught.
plan, v. scheme, project, intend, devise, contrive, design, purpose.
planetarium, n. orrery.
plant, n. vegetable, herb; pl. flora (plants of a region).
plant, v. sow; settle, establish.
plant-eaters, n. pl. Herbivora.
plant-eating, a. herbivorous, phytivorous, plantivorous, phytophagous.
plant-eating, n. phytophagy.
plant green. chlorophyll, fecula.
plant louse. aphis, aphid, aphidian; pl. aphides, aphidæ.
plastic, a. formative, creative; impressible, fictile.
plateau, n. table-land, mesa.
platform, n. rostrum, stage, dais.
platitude, n. banality.
platitudinous, a. banal, trite, commonplace.
platter, n. trencher.
plaudit, n. applause, acclaim, acclamation.
plausibility, n. speciousness.
plausible, a. specious; glib, fluent, oily, smooth-tongued. Antonym: implausible.
play, v. frolic, sport, gambol, disport, frisk, skip, caper, romp, revel; wanton, dally, toy, twiddle; impersonate, personate, act; perform, execute; strum, thrum; gamble; simulate, pretend, feign, dissemble.
play, n. game, pastime, amusement, recreation, diversion, sport, disport, gambols, frolic, jest, merriment; action, use, employment, practice, exercise; comedy, drama, melodrama, farce, burlesque; dalliance, toying, twiddling; liberty, scope, swing. Associated words: dramaturgy, dramaturgist, dramatic, dramatize, dramatization, theater, rôle, repertoire.
playday, n. holiday.
player, n. idler, drone; actor, thespian, tragedian, comedian, imitator, impersonator, mime, mimic; performer, instrumentalist.
playful, a. sportive, frolicsome, prankish, jocular, sprightly, wanton.
play off. feign, simulate, dissemble.
plaything, n. bauble, gimcrack, toy.
play-writer, n. playwright, dramatist.
plea, n. defense, excuse, apology, vindication, intercession, prayer, entreaty.
plead, v. reason, argue; apologize; defend, advocate, intercede.
pleader, n. intercessor, defender, advocate.
pleasant, a. agreeable, genial, congenial, affable, amiable, enjoyable, good-humored, pleasurable. Antonyms: unpleasant, disagreeable, uncongenial, repellent, repelling, austere, unamiable, inaffable, dreary, dismal, offensive.
pleasantry, n. badinage, banter, raillery, witticism, joke, jest, jocularity, drollery, waggery, jollity, humor.
please, v. rejoice, gladden, delight, gratify, cheer, elate; satisfy, content; like, choose, prefer.
pleasing, a. pleasant, delightful, gratifying, delectable, gracious, winning.
pleasure, n. gratification, enjoyment, happiness, delectation, delight; amusement, recreation, diversion; will, choice, preference, desire; voluptuousness, sensuality. Antonym: displeasure.
pleat, n. plait.
pledge, n. gage, security, hostage, guarantee.
pledge, v. pawn, impawn, hypothecate, plight.
plenteous, a. plentiful.
plentiful, a. abundant, bounteous, ample, galore, copious, full, sufficient, lavish, replete, unstinted, prolific. Antonyms: scarce, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, scant, niggardly.
plenty, n. abundance, sufficiency, plenitude. Antonyms: See scarcity.
plethora, n. superabundance, superfluity, excess, repletion; hyperæmia.
pliability, n. flexibility, suppleness, pliancy, limberness, ductility, malleability. Antonyms: inflexibility, rigidity. See inflexibility.
pliable, a. flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe, flexile, malleable; irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant. Antonyms: impliable, inflexible.
plight, n. condition, state, dilemma, predicament, situation, scrape.
plight, v. pawn, pledge; promise, betroth.
plod, v. trudge, tramp.
plodding, a. hardworking, diligent.
plot, n. conspiracy, intrigue, machination, cabal, complot; plat; imbroglio (complicated plot). Associated word: marplot.