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  • phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • piezoelectric — electricity, or electric polarity, produced by the piezoelectric effect.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • pimple copper — a form of copper matte about 80 percent pure, somewhat less refined than blister copper.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
  • polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
  • police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • police office — a geographical administrative division within an area patrolled by a police force
  • police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • ponce de leon — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
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