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  • perez esquivel — Adolfo [uh-dol-foh;; Spanish ah-th awl-faw] /əˈdɒl foʊ;; Spanish ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Argentine sculptor and human rights activist: Nobel prize 1980.
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • period costume — the attire typical of a particular period in time
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • permaculturist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
  • picture spread — an act or instance of spreading: With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plesiochronous — (communications)   Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
  • porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • prairie crocus — a spring flower of the buttercup family
  • prairie-grouse — prairie chicken.
  • pre-assumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
  • pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • pre-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • pre-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • precariousness — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precious coral — red coral.
  • precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precociousness — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • pressure point — a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
  • pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
  • pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
  • presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
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